Invoke Economics To Improve Quality Of Research Publications

I think the easiest way to raise the quality of research publications all around is simply this:

1. Introduce the "Double Blind" review practice [both the author(s) and reviewers kept from knowing each other's identity].

2. Make journals and conferences pay authors and reviewers a fair and square price for every paper they publish/review. Right now authors and reviewers get paid zero but have to pay for every paper they download or conference they attend (or libraries have to spend crores in subscriptions - which in turn comes from student fees, or government funds that would be better spent eradicating poverty). The only parties profiting from the current publishing paradigm are the business houses that run the journal and conference industry. Absolutely everyone else is losing.

That's it. Bring sound review practices and fair economics into the play and the whole drama of a gazillion papers that no one reads will simply stop.