So one commenter said that &quot;Journals are used as a proxy for quality&quot;, another that they loose so much time browsing through low-quality papers. Isn&#x27;t the root issue that we need an open and standard way to review, sort and rate all those academics papers ?<p>Developing voting, flagging, moderating mechanisms, that&#x27;s what many developers have done for years now on the web. Obviously you wouldn&#x27;t rate papers like reddit comments but plug arxiv&#x2F;sci-hub to a system allowing researchers to say what papers they reviewed, what their degree of approval is, eventually where it&#x27;s been published, who references this paper etc. Seems like Arxiv has an endorsement system but as they say &quot;The endorsement process is not peer review&quot;, just a way to reduce spam. Isn&#x27;t there anything done on this subject ?