Peer review declaration

Abstract

All papers published in this volume of IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 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: Double-blind peer review• Review criteria: Consistency with the conference scope; Academic value of the paper; Presentation style of the content. Each criterion was assessed with the following scale: Poor, Satisfactory, Good, Excellent. The majority rule was applied to determine the outcome of the review. If all the referees give different marks for a single position, that the intermediate mark used as a consensus. All the manuscripts with Good and Excellent marks on each position were accepted as is. The manuscripts with Poor marks on any position were declined. Other manuscripts were sent to the authors for revision. After revision, an editor performed a check if the revision was successful. If necessary, the editor could submit the updated manuscript to the reviewers to get their confirmation of revision.• Conference submission management system: submissions were received and handled via e-mail, managed by Sergey Romanenko, co-chairman of the organizing committee, professor, Research School of Chemistry & Applied Biomedical Sciences, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia, svr@tpu.ru• Number of submissions received: 79• Number of submissions sent for review: 77• Number of submissions accepted: 49• Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted/Number of Submissions Received X 100): 62%• Average number of reviews per paper: 3• Total number of reviewers involved: 14• Any additional info on review process: three independent referees one of which invited from outside the conference committee reviewed all the papers. The review process was held under the supervision of the organizing commitee.• Contact person for queries: Sergey Romanenko, co-chairman of the organizing committee, professor, Research School of Chemistry & Applied Biomedical Sciences, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia, svr@tpu.ru