Quality of Life Research is an international and multidisciplinary journal committed to the dissemination of original research, theoretical articles and methodological reports related to the field of quality of life in all the health sciences. This mission requires that the editorial team reviews publishing trends and formats across disciplines, to identify how we can better serve our research community and target audience. “Registered Reports” [
1] are a new format developed in one of our contributing fields, psychology. The format is a reaction to the tendency of scientific publishing to focus on manuscripts that present surprising or ‘statistically significant’ results, which increases the chances of publishing false-positive findings and incentivizes diverging from good scientific principles [
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3]. Registered Reports focus instead on a manuscript’s theoretical foundation and adherence to a prospectively planned research process. …
