Registered Reports: response from the Chinese PRO SIG
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Registered Reports: response from the Chinese PRO SIG Daniel Y. T. Fong1 · Ahmed M. Y. Osman2 · Hongmei Wang3 · Chengwu Yang4 Accepted: 5 November 2020 / Published online: 17 November 2020 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
The Quality of Life Research journal has recently caught up with the trend of publishing Registered Reports, a new publication format for reporting results from a theoretically sound and novel study that has been planned a priori and properly adhered irrespective of whether there is statistical significance [1]. The format of Registered Reports in Quality of Life Research features a two-stage review process, with stage 1 focusing on the scientific rigor and innovation, after which an “In-principle Acceptance” may be issued, and stage 2 focusing on the extent the study conduct has adhered the plan as stipulated in stage 1. Such a new publication format under the 2-stage review process was developed to alleviate the long-standing issue of p-hacking or hypothesizing after results are known (HARKing) that lead to publication bias towards positive findings [2]. The Chinese PRO SIG of the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) would like to congratulate Quality of Life Research for the success of accomplishing the new initiative. It had been discussed in the SIG meeting at the 27th virtual annual ISOQOL conference in October 2020. A search in PubMed in October 2020 using the phrase “Registered-Report” in any field revealed a total of 1041 publications. Of which, 379 (36%) came from the USA, 145 (14%) from the United Kingdom, 127 (12%) from Canada, 122 (12%) from Australia, 92 (9%) from the Netherlands, 72 (7%) from Germany, 47 (5%) from Sweden, 40 (4%) from Switzerland, 31 (3%) from France, 31 (3%) from Spain, 23 (2%) from Africa, 23 (2%) from Japan, 19 (2%) from Brazil, 17 (2%) from China, 15 (1%) from Singapore, and 9 (1%) * Daniel Y. T. Fong [email protected] 1
School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, PR China
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Department of Social Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Public Health, Hangzhou, PR China
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College of Dentistry, New York University, New York, USA
from India. Note that these numbers add up to more than the total because there were studies from multiple countries. Nevertheless, the 2% global share of published registered reports from China is distinctively low given China had the highest global share of 21% in the number of science and engineering articles in 2018, which was followed by the USA with 17% and India with 5% [3]. The low take-up rate in China and generally in Asian countries may be due to the format of Registered Reports that had remained new and had not been well promulgated in Asian countries. More active presentations in both local and international conference meetings would be helpful to impart a good understanding of Registered Reports. Although different countries had a diverse take-up rate of Regis
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