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
• Describe criteria used by Reviewers when accepting/declining papers. Was there
the opportunity to resubmit articles after revisions?
A basic plagiarism check is done as a primary filtration and the papers with less than 15% plagiarism are sent to Reviewers and further, they are suggested and briefed out to keep a check on novelty and continuity of flow along with the clarity of thought and correctness concerning the data. Upon satisfying the above-mentioned criteria, the papers were submitted for final publication with IOP. The papers, which failed to meet the proposed criteria, were sent to the respective authors along with comments from reviewers and a second chance was given to resubmit their work addressing the comments.
• Conference submission management system: EasyChair
• Number of submissions received: 130
• Number of submissions sent for review: 130
• Number of submissions accepted: 49
(NOTE: Out of 130 submissions, 65 papers were shortlisted for ScTACE 2020, out of which only 49 papers were considered for publication with IOP, and the remaining 16 papers were considered under the category of the presentation without publication)
• Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 38%
• Average number of reviews per paper: 2
• Total number of reviewers involved: 25
• Any additional info on review process (i.e., plagiarism check system): Every
submitted paper has gone through a plagiarism check using the software Turnitin. And every key factor like novelty, continuity of flow, clarity, and correctness of thought was taken into consideration and based upon these; a strict acceptance process was adopted. Papers meeting the high proposed standards were accepted for publication with IOP (49) and the papers with basic proposed standards were considered for presentation without publication only (16).
Contact person for queries: Dr Pala Gireesh Kumar, Assoc Prof. & HOD-CE, Convener, ScTACE 2020, SVECW(A). (Email ID: gireeshcivil@svecw.edu.in)