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Pré-Publication, Document De Travail Année : 2022

Comparison of Preregistration Platforms

Steve Haroz

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Preregistration can force researchers to front-load a lot of decision-making to an early stage of a project. Choosing which preregistration platform to use must be therefore be one of those early decisions, and because a preregistration cannot be moved, that choice is permanent. This article aims to help researchers who are already interested in preregistration choose a platform by clarifying differences between them. Preregistration criteria and features are explained and analyzed for sites that cater to a broad range of research fields, including: GitHub, AsPredicted, Zenodo, the Open Science Framework (OSF), and an “open-ended” variant of OSF. While a private prespecification document can help mitigate self-deception, this guide considers publicly shared preregistrations that aim to improve credibility. It therefore defines three of the criteria (a timestamp, a registry, and persistence) as a bare minimum for a valid and reliable preregistration. GitHub and AsPredicted fail to meet all three. Zenodo and OSF meet the basic criteria and vary in which additional features they offer.

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Psychologie

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hal-03588379 , version 1 (24-02-2022)

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Steve Haroz. Comparison of Preregistration Platforms. 2022. ⟨hal-03588379⟩
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