Comments on ANSI/NISO Z39.106-2023 - Standard Terminology for Peer Review

In July 2023, version 3.0 of Standard Terminology for Peer Review was published by the National Information Standards Organization. The terminology approaches four aspects of the peer review process: identity transparency, reviewer interacts with, review information published, and post-publication commenting. In this article, I comment on some gaps in the categories of identity transparency, reviewer interacts with, and reviewer information. To demonstrate these gaps, I will use some examples of open peer review models with public participation in journals from different disciplines. Furthermore, I would like to comment on how the information about identity transparency is presented and propose the inclusion of a category for the type of reviewers who may evaluate a paper. In short, version 3.0 of the NISO Peer Review Terminology is a great initiative to support journals and peer review, but not apply to all review models and it is intended.