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Thank you to the 1396 reviewers who provided 2328 reviews during 2023 to ensure the quality and integrity of JGR‐Oceans manuscripts. Thank you to our 2023 peer reviewers Thank you to our 2023 peer reviewers

Thank you to the 1528 reviewers who provided 2647 reviews during 2022 to ensure the high quality and integrity of JGR‐Oceansmanuscripts. The editors thank the 2022 peer reviewersNew editorial practices reduce pressure on reviewersCo‐reviewer tool allows collaboration with students and postdocs The editors thank the 2022 peer reviewers New editorial practices reduce pressure on reviewers Co‐reviewer tool allows collaboration with students and postdocs

JGR‐Oceansreceives many more submissions from a broader demographic of authors than in the past and burnout among reviewers as well as potential bias among editors is threatening excellence and equity at the journal. To confront these issues, we have implemented some new editorial strategies that are anticipated to provide a fairer and more rewarding peer‐review experience for authors, as well as alleviate pressure on reviewers and deliver high quality science for readers. First, we have recruited a dozen new editors from across the world who better reflect our author demographic and who can make wiser and more inclusive decisions about the running of the journal. Second, we now require that each manuscript clearly communicate new understanding about the oceanbefore we send it out for review. This simple rubric deflects potentially biased editorial decisions based on author attributes and brings us closer to the original scope of JGR‐Oceans. Third, we are facilitating a culture of collaboration among reviewers and among ourselves, the editors, that brings more balanced decision‐making to reviews and manuscripts and provides authors more feedback. Our aim is to better help authors communicate their science with confidence and clarity. Finally, JGR‐Oceanshas always been a multi‐disciplinary journal and we are encouraging more submissions that convey new understanding of biogeochemical processes and human interact ocean variability and change. JGR‐Oceanshas diversified the editorial board and implemented new editorial strategies JGR‐Oceanshas diversified the editorial board and implemented new editorial strategies