Innovative Ideas Needed for a complex situation

Hello All,
I have been sucessfully running a Online Medical Journal with Drupal 6 and have released 2 Issues. I am very pleased with the simplicity and the easy layout, and the feedback has been fantastic.

www.bjmp.org

For Medical Journals, an essential step, before articles are published is 'Peer Review'. The submitted article is sent by the editor to one or a few experts (reviewers) in that field, who would comment on things like appropriateness, significance, the validity of the research methods, statistical tests used, etc and based on this 'peer review', a decision is made by the editor to accept or reject or ask for revisions of the article. Articles are only published if they have gone through these reviews.

Now, for my website, I have setup a system, where an author is able to submit his article and upload other files using a form. But after that, I have been relying on emails for the rest of the process and fall back on drupal after the articles has been vetted by peers and I then create the content.

There is an open source OJS that does this, but isnt very appealing to me. I need some ideas as to how I can integrate the peer review within drupal, so I can also track the process. I have thought of:
1) using a resrticted forum, where the author and reviewers can post messages. But I need the reviewers to use a standardised form and i cant think of how i can get the reviewers to respond to the initial post with an online form. ( and seperate for each article)
2) using polls
3) use a bridge to connect to OJS
4) have tried the e-publish module, but peer review isnt available there.

Any suggestions or ideas will be very helpfull. Sorry for the lenghty post.
Regards,