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This is a good idea, and is known as "preregistration". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preregistration_(science) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preregistration_(s

• FabHK 5y ago
  Well, it is preregistration plus a commitment by a journal to accept and publish the resulting paper (no matter the outcome of the study). That apparently is "Registered reports" (see same Wikipedia article), an idea I hadn't heard before. Edited to add (from Wikipedia): > Over 200 journals offer a registered reports option (Centre for Open Science, 2019),[33] and the number of journals that are adopting registered reports is approximately doubling each year (Chambers et al., 2019).[34] > Nature Human Behaviour has adopted the registered report format, as it “shift[s] the emphasis from the results of research to the questions that guide the research and the methods used to answer them”.[36] > European Journal of Personality defines this format: “In a registered report, authors create a study proposal that includes theoretical and empirical background, research questions/hypotheses, and pilot data (if available). Upon submission, this proposal will then be reviewed prior to data collection, and if accepted, the paper resulting from this peer-reviewed procedure will be published, regardless of the study outcomes.”[37]