The Freakonomics podcast covered this topic pretty nicely just recently. Would recommend a listen! It’s not just international or low impact journals that are having issues.

I feel like zero trust research could be a thing in the future in some areas.

So for example, the study would be pre registered with expected outcome as is starting to be done more often now. But also the third party has a private encryption key and the experiments data is encrypted somehow during collection with a public encryption key (obviously very much depends on the type of study).

The scientist could not snoop the data even if they wanted. The public key can encrypt data but only the private key can unlock it.

Then once uploaded to the third party they can unlock it with their private key. Then the data is public before any analysis.