The phrase "a preference for reporting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's inclination or choice towards reporting, such as in a professional or academic context.
Example: "The team has a preference for reporting data in real-time to ensure accuracy and timeliness."
Alternatives: "an inclination towards reporting" or "a tendency for reporting".
Review of recent literature (2000 2014) showed a preference for reporting batch kinetics, even when corresponding column data were available.
The extent to which emotionally significant stimuli capture visual attention remains elusive because a preference for reporting or choosing emotionally significant stimuli could mimic attentional capture by these stimuli.
Reliance only on published studies may cause bias if there is a preference for reporting only 'positive' outcomes.
Mattioli et al 31 noted a preference for reporting incidents causing harm over near miss reporting in a paediatric surgical department.
If there was no misclassification bias in controls and perfect sensitivity, then a small recall bias in the direction of a preference for reporting mobile phone use at the side of the tumor of about 3% would reduce these enhanced ORs for long-term (≥ 10 years) use to 1.
And indeed, 13 years have passed since the first survey showing a preference for structured reporting among referrers and radiologists, and there is still no sight of the gates of structured reporting heaven.
GP4 Participants' preferences for a preferred format for reporting an AEFI varied across the three professional groups, and covered the current options for paper, phone, fax and electronic reporting.
Exclusion of non-English-language studies could contribute to explaining this fact, although a preference for publishing studies reporting positive results is a more plausible explanation [ 44].
Professionals reported a preference for IA, yet also reported difficulty in using IA due to poor staffing levels, busy clinical environments and the increased medicalisation or industrialisation of childbirth.
Most professionals described having a preference for ECV and reported directively counselling women to choose it.
Most professionals described having a preference for ECV and reported trying to counsel women to choose it.
