High-quality peer review saves lives–let’s work together to care for our reviewers and evolve the peer review

Abstract High quality health-related publications have an important impact on driving improvements in global healthcare and so saving lives. Fundamental in ensuring the quality of published research, peer review systems and peer reviewers themselves, are under significant pressure to deal with the increasing volume of new biomedical article publications globally. In this context, our understanding of peer reviewers’ attitudes and requirements, the use of new digital tools to support the work of peer reviewers, and the identification of professional groups who are not already part of the peer review community, is extremely important to support global healthcare delivery.