Introducing Registered Reports to the Information Systems Community

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Last February, the BISE Editorial Board met for its annual Editorial Board Meeting in Siegen with a bunch of new and interesting ideas on the agenda. One topic that was discussed and settled was the introduction of a new submission format – Registered Reports – for the recently established “Human–Computer Interaction and Social Computing” department. Experimental research is the dominant paradigm in this department and therefore a good candidate for this innovative approach to evaluating research results. Registered Reports are a promising format to encourage and support high quality (and also risky and innovative) experimental research and ensure rigorous scientific practice. As experimental research is gaining importance in our journal through our new department, but also in other areas such as Economics of IS, dealing with Registered Reports is also part of our strategy to maintain and develop our status as a high-quality community journal and make it even more attractive for potential authors in the respective areas. …