Preregistration of an integrative review of conceptions and facilitators of and barriers to reproducibility of qualitative research

The proposed review is an integrative review. It has been designed in keeping with the guidance for integrative reviews developed by Whittemore and Knafl (2005) and elaborated by Torraco (2016) and Toronto and Remington (2020). An integrative review is ideal for these purposes because reproducibility and replicability of qualitative research is an emerging topic with a growing body of literature surrounding it that is not uniform in stance nor conclusions. As Torraco observes, conducting an integrative review can lead to “an initial or preliminary conceptualization of the topic rather than a reconceptualization of existing models.”