Peer review declaration

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

• Conference submission management system: AI Scholar Submission System

• Number of submissions received: 171

• Number of submissions sent for review: 158

• Number of submissions accepted: 99

• Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 57.9%

• Average number of reviews per paper: 2

• Total number of reviewers involved: 80

• Any additional info on review process:

Step 1. Each of the selected papers should be reviewed by two or three experts who are professional in the related area. A report of the reviewing result will come out by each expert.

Step 2. After collecting the reviewing reports from the experts, one of the editors will review the reports and decide whether the reports are approved.

Step 3. After that, the editors inform the authors of the reviewing results along with the three reviewing reports.

Step 4. Authors are required to revise their paper according to the requirements, then hand in the revised version to the editors. The editors send the revised version to reviewers and will decide whether the paper is approved to be published according to the reviewers' final reports. And at last the editors inform the decision with every details of the publication requirements if the paper is accepted.

• Contact person for queries:

Peijiang Zhou

Wuhan University

pjzhou@whu.edu.cn