Transparency of peer review: a semi-structured interview study with chief editors from social sciences and humanities

Open peer review practices are increasing in medicine and life sciences, but in social sciences and humanities (SSH) they are still rare. We aimed to map out how editors of respected SSH journals perceive open peer review, how they balance policy, ethics, and pragmatism in the review processes they oversee, and how they view their own power in the process.We conducted 12 pre-registered semi-structured interviews with editors of respected SSH...