So you are proposing essentially communism meets scientific journals... Great on paper but terrible in practice.<p>Communism created Zero incentive for being innovative.
You&#x27;re proposition creates Zero incentive for being innovative.<p>It sounds like you are on some high horse superiority complex with your noble ideas.<p>The fact is that the researchers that are receiving disproportionately large funding once paid their dues and received little funding. 
It&#x27;s Capitalism 101. Plenty of companies have better products but lose because they messed up in other areas. 
Plenty of researchers have better research but lose because they fail to educate others, fail to take it to the next level, fail to produce anything that has meaning for society.