Human Resource Management Journal (HRMJ) is proud to offer a registered reports pathway to publication. A registered report is an innovative method of publication in which authors submit a research proposal for peer review prior to the collection and analysis of the data. At Stage 1, the Introduction, Literature Review, Theory, Hypotheses and a detailed Research Methods Protocol are peer reviewed. If the paper is accepted ‘in principle’ at this stage, the authors can then proceed to Stage 2, in which they collect and analyse the data according to the agreed protocol and write up the Results and Discussion sections of the study. The primary purpose of a registered report is to obviate the use of questionable research practices and insidious p-hacking. For this reason, only deductive (theory-testing) research is appropriate for this pathway to publication. Research published via a registered report is conceptually and methodologically robust, falsifiable and less likely to fall victim to irreproducibility. This article explains what registered reports are, why they are good for scientific discovery, how the human resource management (HRM) field can benefit from offering this pathway to publication and how HRM scholars can submit a registered report to HRMJ.

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社论：什么是注册报告，为什么它们对人力资源管理研究的未来很重要？

人力资源管理杂志 (HRMJ)很自豪能够提供注册报告的出版途径。注册报告是一种创新的出版方法，作者在收集和分析数据之前提交研究提案以供同行评审。在第一阶段，对介绍、文献综述、理论、假设和详细的研究方法协议进行同行评审。如果论文在这个阶段被“原则上”接受，作者可以进入第二阶段，在这个阶段他们根据商定的协议收集和分析数据，并写下研究的结果和讨论部分。注册报告的主要目的是避免使用有问题的研究实践和阴险的 p-hacking。出于这个原因，只有演绎（理论测试）研究才适用于这一出版途径。通过注册报告发表的研究在概念和方法上都是稳健的、可证伪的，并且不太可能成为不可重复性的受害者。本文解释了什么是注册报告，为什么它们有利于科学发现，人力资源管理 (HRM) 领域如何从提供这种出版途径中受益，以及 HRM 学者如何将注册报告提交给人力资源管理部。