11 Registered Reports
From Center for Open Science:
Registered Reports is a publishing format that emphasizes the importance of the research question and the quality of methodology by conducting peer review prior to data collection. High quality protocols are then provisionally accepted for publication if the authors follow through with the registered methodology.
This format is designed to reward best practices in adhering to the hypothetico-deductive model of the scientific method. It eliminates a variety of questionable research practices, including low statistical power, selective reporting of results, and publication bias, while allowing complete flexibility to report serendipitous findings.
Benefits of the Registered Reports process from the perspective of authors include: receiving in-principle acceptance prior to investing scarce resources in running a study, getting peer input on study design prior to study onset when it is likely to be usefully incorporated, a chance to avoid resubmission of a paper at many journals prior to acceptance, and assurance that null results will receive equal treatment to positive results during consideration of a paper.
Authors have two options for Registered Reports. They may submit directly to a journal that offers the Registered Report submission type, or they may submit to the Peer Community In Registered Reports (PCI-RR). The PCI-RR is a journal independent peer reviewing service that manages the complete (stage 1 and stage 2) review of Registered Reports. After recommendation (i.e., acceptance) through the PCI-RR, authors are able to submit their work directly to participating journals. These journals either agree to accept relevant work outright (friendly journals) or after additional peer review (interested journals).