Equitable Peer Review

This peer-review equity toolkit is particularly indebted to the collaborative document Anti-racist scholarly reviewing practices: A heuristic for editors, reviewers, and authors.

ScholarWorks journal editors and staff are encouraged to read this document in full, but we highlight the major insights of the heuristic here for quick reference:

• Recognize a range of expertise and encourage citation practices that represent diverse canons, epistemological foundations, and ways of knowing.
• Recognize, intervene in and/or prevent harmful scholarly work—both in publication processes and in published scholarship.
• Establish and state clear but flexible contingency plans for review processes that prioritize humanity over production.
• Make the review process transparent.
• Value the labor of those involved in the review process.
• Editors commit to inclusivity among reviewers and in editorial board makeup.