I worry that a rating system would reduce the amount of thought each reviewer puts into their decision, but it&#x27;s certainly true that peer review isn&#x27;t perfect. Famously, the Fourier transform was not published for several years due to a disagreement with Lagrange.<p>&gt; When Fourier submitted his paper in 1807, the committee (which included Lagrange, Laplace, Malus and Legendre, among others) concluded: ...the manner in which the author arrives at these equations is not exempt of difficulties and [...] his analysis to integrate them still leaves something to be desired on the score of generality and even rigour.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_important_publications_in_mathematics#M.C3.A9moire_sur_la_propagation_de_la_chaleur_dans_les_corps_solides" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_important_publications...</a>