Peer review declaration

Abstract

All papers published in this volume of IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing.• Type of peer review: Single-blind• Describe criteria used by Reviewers when accepting/declining papers. Was there the opportunity to resubmit articles after revisions? The criteria used by the reviewers were as follows (with Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor and VeryPoor highlight for each criteria):–Significance of actual state of the problem;–Originality of the work;–Quality of research methodology;–Validity of the results and interpretation;–Clarity of the conclusions;–Validity of the future results;–Adequacy of recognition of the quotations of previous work;–Quality of the language.The reviewer’s recommendations were:–Accepted as it is;–Accepted with minor revisions;–Resubmitted with major revisions;–Rejected.Yes, of course was the possibility for all authors to resubmit articles after reviewer’scomments.• Conference submission management system: The Conference management system consist in our platform www.modtech.ro with the database included such as: REGISTER, LOGIN, USERS INFORMATION (email, city/country, uploading paper time, options (automatically email to the each author, view & edit details about the participant), delete the user account), NEWSLETTER (inform in a same time all the participants), FILES (uploading abstracts and full papers, message for accepted/denied).Also, the modtech.ro website has the information about ORGANIZERS, TOPICS, CONFERENCE COMMITIES, PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT, ModTech ATTENDANCE POLICY, CALL FOR PAPERS ( template, Paper template, Poster template, Copyright, Attendance Application Form), REGISTRATION, IMPORTANT DATES, PUBLICATIONS, BOOK OF ABSTRACTS,PLENARY/KEYNOTE/INVITED SPEAKERS, VENUE, NEWS, CONTACT.• Number of submissions received: 131• Number of submissions sent for review: 128 (3 paper rejected after the plagiarism report)• Number of submissions accepted: 125 (IOP-91; IJMMT-20; 14-withdrawn due to the loss of SCOPUS indexation by the IOP)• Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 95.4%• Average number of reviews per paper: 2• Total number of reviewers involved: 39• Any additional info on review process (ie plagiarism check system): Was used the PLAGIARISM DETECTOR PRO v. 1861• Contact person for queries: Dumitru Nedelcu, Phone: +40771346968, Email: office.modtech@gmail.com