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: Double-blind [The abstracts were scrutinized by the Conference Coordinators and the authors were informed to revise and submit the abstracts. After acceptance of the abstract, the authors were informed to submit the full paper within the given deadline. The full papers and Technical Review Committee members were assigned with codes and the papers were assigned as per the area of expertise. The papers were reviewed based on Technical quality (clarity of expression, sufficient discussion, repetition and similarity), Scientific quality (scientific merit, originality and significance) and Presentation quality (correctness of title and abstract, text and data, conclusions and references). Based on the review comments, the papers were sent to the authors and the revised papers were resubmitted to the reviewers to get the final consent as acceptance] • Conference submission management system: Easychair Login • Number of submissions received: 298 • Number of submissions sent for review: 298 • Number of submissions accepted:133 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted/Number of Submissions Received X 100): 45 • Average number of reviews per paper: 4.4 • Total number of reviewers involved: 70 • Any additional info on review process: Additional revision was performed to check for matching the required format • Contact person for queries: Dr C PoongodiBannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam poongodic@bitsathy.ac.in hodece@bitsathy.ac.in