PEER REVIEW DECLARATION

BUILDINTECH BIT 2021. INNOVATIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN CONSTRUCTION

All papers published in this volume of Journal of Physics: Conference Series 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): Double-blind.

Papers must be submitted electronically via: https://scopus-conf.ru/en/buildintech-bit-2021 -innovacii-i-tehnologii-v-stroitelstve/#registration. All submissions must come in PDF format, conform to the Conference Publishing template, and not exceed 14 pages (including figures, appendices and references). We also welcome survey papers with an increased page limit of up to 15 pages. Together with papers authors also must submit the registration form. Every participant in the conference served by this site, "in any capacity," must maintain a login and password. The same login must be used for all conferences. Follow the link to register a login, to check and update your personal information, or to retrieve your password. To comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, the first time when you login to a new account, you will be directed to the required opt-in consent form before you can use your account in any capacity for products and services offered through this site. All papers submitted to the conferences supported by this site need to be prepared as compliant PDF files and must be formatted according to the template.

• Conference submission management system: the papers were submitted via conference website

• Number of submissions received: 160 submissions received

• Number of submissions sent for review: 117 submissions were sent for review

• Number of submissions accepted: 85 submissions were accepted

• Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 53%

• Average number of reviews per paper: 3

• Total number of reviewers involved: 45

• Any additional info on review process: All the papers submitted to the «BUILDINTECH BIT 2021. INNOVATIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN CONSTRUCTION» conferences pass the procedure of reviewing according to the order established by editorial board. All papers are reviewed three times by experts in relevant field. The reviewing process took 40 days. The revised papers were also checked by Editors. All accepted papers meet the following criteria:

- Scientific merit and quality of data presented;

- Relevance of study to the conference topics;

- No plagiarism and autoplagiarism;

- Adequate paper structure;

- Good English.

Members of the editorial board and leading Russian and international experts in corresponding areas of life sciences, invited as independent readers, perform peer reviews. Conference Editors choose readers for peer review. In the case of the manuscript relevance to the conference profile, established rules and requirements, it is accepted by the editorial board and is sent for the reviewing. Otherwise the article is rejected without further reviewing. Reviewers prepare reviews of articles on a voluntary basis. Reviewers should submit their reviews in a scanned form. The reviewer makes a conclusion about the possibility of publishing an article:

• "recommended for publication";

• "recommended taking into account the correction of the comments made by the reviewer";

• "article must be sent for revision";

• "not recommended for publication".

The articles are reviewed and accepted only after at least two positive reviews of three reviewers. After making a decision by the editorial board of the conference to admit the article for publication, the author is informed about it.

• Contact person for queries:

Name: Sergey Klyuev

Affiliation: Candidate of Engineering Sciences (PhD), Associate Professor, Belgorod State

Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov

Email: Klyuyev@yandex.ru