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 as expected by the proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing. • Type of peer review: Single-blind • Describe criteria used by Reviewers when accepting/declining papers. Was there the opportunity to resubmit articles after revisions?: Reviewers were invited to review the submitted papers by introducing morressier platform and providing their comments to authors and editor. The reviewers were also asked to indicate whether the paper is approved or disapproved considering the Relevance, Quality, Results and Novelty. All papers had the opportunity to provide a revised version according to reviewer’s comments that had been verified by the Organizing Committee and approved by the editor. • Conference submission management system: Morressier • Number of submissions received: 99 • Number of submissions sent for review: 99 • Number of submission accepted: 72 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 72.7% (includes the withdrawn papers and no shows) • Average number of reviews per paper: Two (Only one review for the papers approved by the expert reviewers without critical comments) • Total number of reviewers involved: 46 • Any additional info on review process: NA • Contact person for queries (Full name, affiliation, institutional email address): 1. Full Name: Arun Kumar Affiliation: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee email: [email protected] 2. Full Name: Bhupendra Kumar Gandhi Affiliation: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee email: [email protected]