We wanted to learn how the initiative was working, to identify and
report on best practices that journals use, and to identify potential
obstacles that might be overcome.
Methods
Within the Better Peer Review Self-Assessment tool, journal teams were
asked to rate their current practice with a self-assessment score
(SA-score) from one to three (Table 2). Additionally, journal teams were
asked to reflect on their response and and briefly explain a free text
summary why they gave themselves each score. This provided respondents
with an opportunity to describe specific journal practices. The subject
areas and ownership represented by the 132 journals that completed the
self-assessment are described in Supplementary Table 1.