http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/quality-shines-when-scientists-use-publishing-tactic-known-registered-reports-study

Registered reports, which peer review methods and analyses before results are known, measure up on quality and creativity.

In 2013, the journals Cortex, Social Psychology, and Perspectives on Psychological Science launched a groundbreaking publishing format—called a registered report—that they hoped would solve several problems worsened by conventional publishing practices. One issue was that many journals declined to publish important negative results, judging them not sufficiently novel. In addition, many authors analyzed their data in multiple ways but only reported the most interesting results.