There's a meeting every four years, sort of like the Olympics, held in Chicago that I heartily recommend. It's the peer review congress. People are actually looking in an empirical way—in other words, in an evidence-based way—at where peer review could improve and how there are various ways to do that. The fact, though, is that, at the moment, publishers are jamming millions of papers, as you all heard earlier today, through a system that simply is overstretched. You can't really expect efficient quality control until you acknowledge that the system just doesn't have the resources.
On December 3rd, 2024. See this statement in context.