A Quick Guide for Becoming a Better Peer Reviewer

As a practice of more than 200 years,1 peer review is an important process to help ensure the standards and legitimacy of scientific research. Despite its limitations and emerging alternative scientific publishing models,2 peer review remains the mainstream process of "verifying" research papers. As current and former Editors of the Journal of Physical Activity and Health (JPAH), as well as active researchers who regularly submit our work to journals, we have dealt with thousands of reviewers' reports and have had our fair share of gratitude, frustration, and pain. So, what makes for a good (or great) review? From our vantage point, we want to share some (and by no means complete) tips with fellow peer reviewers, especially those who have just recently embarked on their peer review journey. Through this editorial, we hope to start a conversation about how to improve the peer review process and the experience of our authors, with the goal of enhancing JPAH and research in our field.