Table 10. Mean turnaround times by mean Timeliness R-scores
Examples of best practice as identified by each rater across the five areas are shown in Table 11 and have also been published through our interactive online tool at https://secure.wiley.com/better-peer-review. Potential obstacles that were preventing improvements in a given area were also identified. These included a lack of technical solutions to a particular issue, a lack of clear policy and implementation and a lack of awareness of understanding why a particular change is necessary (Table 11).