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 ● Conference submission management system: Email ● Number of submissions received: 262 ● Number of submissions sent for review: 172 ● Number of submissions accepted: 138 ● Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted/Number of Submissions Received X 100): 52.67% ● Average number of reviews per paper: 4 ● Total number of reviewers involved:57 (4 Editors, 8 Review editors, 45 Reviewers) ● Any additional info on review process: All the article have been checked for the Plagiarism by the Editors. Articles which were having the original content have been straight away sent to review committee and other articles have been sent after the correction to the review committee. Based on the area of specialization, reviewers have been assigned by the editors and the review editors. Sufficient time has been given to the Authors to incorporate the review comments and once again they been subjected to the review process. The Quality articles have only been called for the presentation and recommended for publication in IOP Conference Proceedings.● Contact person for queries: Dr. V. Dhinakaran, M.E., Ph.D. (NITT) Professor/Mechanical Engineering Head-Centre for Applied Research Chennai Institute of Technology Kundrathur, Tamil Nadu, India dhinakaranv@citchennai.net researchpublications@citchennai.net