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BOX CREATORSUri Simonsohn (urisohn@gmail.com)
ABSTRACTpre-registration is the best and possibly only solution to p-hacking. Ten years ago, pre-registrations were virtually unheard of in psychology,1 but they have become increasingly common since then. I was curious just how common they have become, and so I collected some data. This post shares the results.
The data
From the Web of Science I obtained a list of all papers published in 2022 in four top journals that publish psychology experiments: Psych Science, JEP:G, JPSP and JCR.2 Data and code available from ResearchBox.org/2116.
I opened each paper and looked for a preregistration, keeping tabs of whether any study had been pre-registered.3 I also kept track of where they were pre-registered. The figure below shows the results. Overall about 43% of papers in the sample had at least one pre-registered study.