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: Single-blind • Conference submission management system: The papers from the authors were submitted to the email address kosovanatalia@yandex.ru, managed by Dr. Natalia Karakchieva (National Research Tomsk State University, Russia).• Number of submissions received: 105• Number of submissions sent for review: 76• Number of submissions accepted: 66• Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 63%• Average number of reviews per paper: 2.2• Total number of reviewers involved: 167• Any additional info on review process: The consideration of the submitted manuscript included independent peer review process. At least two reviewers gave their view and remarks for each paper. All reviewers were asked to provide a detailed review with comments for authors and editors and evaluate paper taking into account the questions list (Is this work novel? Is this work scientifically correct (the experimental procedure and sequence)? Does the subject significantly advance research in the fields of research? Does it have high scientific quality? Does this work have significant proof to verify the primary hypothesis? Is this work incremental? Is the paper clearly written, concise and understandable? Should the English be improved? Is the paper scientifically sound and not misleading?). All reviewers also were asked to provide their recommendations about paper acceptance (to publish the paper “as is”; to publish the paper after minor revision; to publish the paper after major revision; to reject the paper).• Contact person for queries: Dr. Anna Godymchuk, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia, godymchuk@tpu.ruProf. Svetlana Morkovina, Vice-rector of Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov, Russia prorektor_nauka@vgltu.ru