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• Conference submission management system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmame2020• Number of submissions received: 31• Number of submissions sent for review: 21• Number of submissions accepted:10• Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 47.62%• Average number of reviews per paper: 2 to 3• Total number of reviewers involved: 15• Any additional info on review process: We have first theme review on submissions… If the manuscripts are up to the first review standard, it will enter the second step—being reviewed by technical committees. As CMAME2020 technical committees, our reviewer will carefully check if this paper conforms to conference topic… The reviewers will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of manuscripts, contributions, and the potential impacts of the paper, while the innovation in the paper contents is necessary for CMAME acceptance. If the paper is weak…our reviewer will make suggestions for improvement and publication alternatives. We will contrast the similarity on submissions and published paper, if the similarity is up to 35%, the paper will be rejected for duplicate publication.• Contact person for queries: John Mo, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, john.mo@rmit.edu.au