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.