| Deadlines and defined policies |
Shorted allocated time to review a manuscript and strict procedures to ensure adherence to deadlines |
30% |
| Referee reward system |
Providing incentives and compensation for reviewers and editors |
25% |
| Editorial persistence |
Proactivity from editors to send reminders, follow up with deadlines, and setting the tone. |
14% |
| Alternative responses |
Permitting to submit to more than one journal, include early career researchers as reviewers, follow model of journals that do it well, bank or database of reviewers, have sub-reviewers (e.g. expertise for statistics, methods, taxa, tools, etc.) |
13% |
| Change norms of publishing |
Author empowerment, journal standardization, open peer review, double blind reviews |
12% |
| Improved journal management |
Overall management of editorial staff and inter-journal management |
6% |
