I'd say a noncommercial, maybe UN-backed index that is widely recognized would help.

Also, journal format is extremely outdated. We need to reform the way we store scientific data, and create an international standard.

Honestly, if my career didn't rely on it, I would entirely skip the publishing part of science. It takes so much more work to communicate your findings than to make them. Of course, that doesn't help the cause since no one else will be able to build off of my work if I don't share it.