Pre-registration

Do you have any questions?

Primer on pre-registration

  • You can read a primer from the UK Reproducibility Network here

Examples from PSI

  • Sartorius, A. I., Kang, H., Deilhaug, E., Walle, K. M., Lawson, E. A., Eddy, K., ... & Quintana, D. S. (2025). Oxytocin and its role in energy balance and metabolic factors: A living systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. medRxiv, 2025-04. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.04.25325238
  • Example 2

Templates

There are various templates designed for specific disciplines or types of study designs, which can be a good starting point for writing up a pre-registration. 

Template Description Link
AsPredicted A template consisted of nine questions about research design and analyses. https://aspredicted.org/
OSF Prereg Template A comprehensive template applicable to a general purpose https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/epgjd
PROSPERO A platform for pre-registering systematic reviews with health-related outcomes https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/home
Qualitative research This Delphi study by Haven et al. (2020) provides a template that can be used for pre-registering qualitative studies https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1609406920976417