Peer review is a process that in the last 50 years it has become common in the scientific journals. However, although it is useful because it eliminates the manuscripts of low scientific quality, also tends to eliminate the very innovative ideas that could be important for the advancement of science. If we think that the quality of scientific writings have a Gaussian distribution then the peer review process eliminates both ends of the curve, very bad and very good, and only leaves the writings that are standard. In addition the ideas should be accepted or rejected by the entire scientific community, not only by two people.
One problem that has peer review is so long time communication between authors and reviewers. Would not it be better than the journals, put at the service of authors and reviewers a private chat system in which they could communicate in real time? Thus the reviewers could address questions to the authors about their work and clarify concepts that have not been clear in the manuscript, before giving its opinion. This system could be made so that authors and reviewers did not know the identity of the other.
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