This is just one opinion, of course.
The peer review drugs don’t work
A process at the heart of science is based on faith rather than evidence, says Richard Smith, and vested interests keep it in place
MAY 28 2015
https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/content/the-peer-review-drugs-dont-work
I agree that this can be a problem.Peer review is anti-innovatory because it is a process that depends on approval by exponents of the current orthodoxy. Bruce Glick, Hans Krebs and the team of Solomon Berson and Rosalyn Yalow all had hugely important work – including Nobel prizewinning research – rejected by journals.