Peer review declaration

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Peer Review Declaration Form Guidance On the following page you will find the declaration form.• Please answer each question.• You should submit the form along with the rest of your submission files.• The deadline is the submission date written in your publishing agreement.All conference organisers/editors are required to declare details about their peer review.We will publish the information you provide as part of your proceedings.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 / Double-blind / Triple-blind / Open / Other (please describe): Single-blind: authors' identities are known to the reviewers, but the reviewers' identities are hidden from the authors.• Conference submission management system: Full paper submission was fully managed by the editorial board of the Conference. The steps of the editorial process are as follows:1. The abstracts were submitted by the participants through the online system which was available on the conference web page. https://science.adamasuniversity.ac.in/gsdeo2021/.2. The submitted abstracts were then reviewed by the editorial team of the conference.3. The authors of the selected abstracts were asked to modify and resubmit their abstracts following the reviewer’s comments.4. Updated abstracts were received from the authors.5. The authors of the selected abstracts presented their research at the conference.6. After the conference, the notification of full paper submission was sent to the authors who attended and presented their research activities during the conference.7. The full papers were submitted by the authors through the conference email gsdeo2021@adamasuniversity.ac.in8. The submitted full papers were then collected by the editorial team for review regarding the quality, format, language, plagiarism etc.9. Based on the quality of the papers, the editorial board selected some papers for the review process.10. Each paper (selected by the editors in the previous step) was sent to two reviewers (1st and 2nd) based on the topic of the paper and the reviewer’s competency.11. After the first review process, a full paper acceptance email was sent to the authors of those submissions only, which passed the first review and were accepted by the reviewers and editors.12. The reviewer’s comments were sent to the authors and the authors were asked to modify and resubmit their papers following the reviewer’s comments.13. After receiving the modified papers, each paper was then assigned to a 3rd reviewer to check the modification done by the authors and for further evaluation.14. The comments of the third reviewer were then sent to the authors and the authors were again asked to modify and resubmit their papers following the reviewer’s comments.15. After receiving the updated version of the papers, each paper was then assigned to one editor for final format checking.16. After receiving the final formatted papers from the editors, the chief editor then again checked the formats of the papers and did necessary modifications to make the papers camera ready.17. The camera-ready papers along with the supporting documents were then submitted to IOP for publication.• Number of submissions received: 44 • Number of submissions sent for review: 25 • Number of submissions accepted: 17 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 38.64% • Average number of reviews per paper: 3 • Total number of reviewers involved: 9 • Any additional info on review process: NA • Contact person for queries: Name : Dr. Tuhin BhadraAffiliation: Department of Geography, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Adamas University, KolkataEmail: tuhin.bhadra@adamasuniversity.ac.in, tuhinbhadra.au@gmail.com