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; Technical content; Presentation style and clarity; Academic value.Each position was assessed with the 5 point grading scale. Manuscripts with one or more low (2 or 1) grades provided independently by both reviewers were considered irrelevant or poor. Those papers were whether rejected or returned for revision, depending on the editor’s decision. Normally, papers inconsistent with the scope were rejected without revision. On the contrary, papers with poor style were normally returned to the authors for revision. Provided revision had to be confirmed by the reviewers.Editors were in charge of communication with the authors and with the reviewers. Reviewers had an opportunity to communicate to the editor their comments on the paper. The editor relayed to the authors all the recommendations for improving the paper.• Conference submission management system: submissions were received and handled via e-mail• Number of submissions received: 206• Number of submissions sent for review: 159• Number of submissions accepted: 100• Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted/Number of Submissions Received X 100): 50%• Average number of reviews per paper: 2• Total number of reviewers involved: 40• Any additional info on review process: two independent peers, one of whom invited from outside the committee were assigned to each paper. The editors supervised the review process. Contact person for queries: Komil D. Astankulov, Professor, Head of the Department Agricultural machines, Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers, Uzbekistan. E-mail: zur_mga@nsma.ru.