Many scholarly journals have begun tracking journal performance metrics to get a granular view of their peer review processes.
The OA Journal Starter Kit has all the information you'll need to get a new open access journal up and running.
While you can't control the opinions of reviewers, you can take ownership of the submission process to give your paper a boost towards publication.
To keep predatory journals off Scholastica, we've developed a set of requirements journals must meet before they can be activated and allowed to accept submissions.