There are a lot of possible solutions that scientific community (Early Career Researchers) is working on. Open Science: There is a growing movement by ECRs to

There are a lot of possible solutions that scientific community (Early Career Researchers) is working on. Open Science: There is a growing movement by ECRs to publish Journals that are open access or atleast offer the option to do so with slightly extra costs. This helps to dismantle the centralized consortia of publishing groups that have become too powerful. Open review: There are journals that allow the reviewers' and authors' comments to be published alongside the paper. This ensures that reviewers are reasonable in their conduct. See eLife for research in natural sciences[0] where once your paper is under review, it is published no matter what. The reviewers can claim that their issues wer not addressed if they feel so and that gets published along the paper's final version. Similary in the computer science community, there are conferences that follow the open review policies as well. Competition can be replaced with collaborations if the Group Leaders are open minded and are "raised" in such an environment. The next generation of researchers are today's graduate students. Publish or Perish: This archaic movement can be suppresed when the universities hire people by looking at CVs of applicants where they can only see the papers but not the Journals where they were published. H-index and traditional metrics can be replaced by Altmetrics [1]. The hiring committees need to do the extra work to go through the research of their applicants and not be biased by the journals in which they publish. These are only few things that are being done. See OpenScience movement variants[3] to explore more in this direction. [0] https://reviewer.elifesciences.org/author-guide/journal-policies https://reviewer.elifesciences.org/author-guide/journal-poli... [1] https://www.altmetric.com/about-altmetrics/what-are-altmetrics/ https://www.altmetric.com/about-altmetrics/what-are-altmetri... [3] https://oa2020.org/ https://oa2020.org/