Having been on both sides of the peer review process in my field (Theoretical Physics), I say we should completely abolish it. Just publish the papers on the preprint archives. Some will be bad, some will be good, and you will know the impact of a paper after 10 years, nothing different from how it is now. Currently the very big majority of the effort in the reviews (on both sides of the process) is wasted time.
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