Peer review declaration
All conference organisers/editors are required to declare details about their peer review. Therefore, please provide the following information: • Type of peer review: Single-blind / Double-blind / Triple-blind / Open / Other All papers have been reviewed by at least two reviewers and follow a double-blind peer review process. For the peer review, an editor has been assigned to the submitted paper as per the major theme of the conference, i.e., design engineering, thermal engineering and fluid science, material science and nanomaterials, production and industrial engineering. Four editors have been handling the review process by assigning two domain expert reviewers to each paper. The papers have been evaluated as per the quality criteria of IOP Publishing and the decisions were sent to the authors, such as: strong accept, accept, weak accept, borderline paper, and reject. The weakly accepted and borderline papers were sent back to authors for revision and resubmission was done through EasyChair. The resubmitted paper was again evaluated by the editor, and a final decision has been conveyed to the author. • Conference submission management system: Easychair Easychair was chosen as the conference paper submission and review management system for ICRAMEN 2021. All papers have been submitted and also reviewed by the Easychair account only. A revised submission was also accepted only by the easychair account. All email correspondence with the author was done through easychair email and also from [email protected]. • Number of submissions received: 52 We have received a total of 52 papers, out of which accepted and registered papers have been considered for presentation at the conference and publication in a journal. • Number of submissions sent for review: 50 Two papers were not considered for review due to late submission and was rejected by the editor. • Number of submissions accepted: 28 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 54% • Average number of reviews per paper: 2.2 • Total number of reviewers involved: 23 • Any additional info on review process: 1. The Plagiarism Checker X software has been used to check the similarity index of the papers. The similarity index of all the papers is not more than 20%. 2. ICRAMEN 2021 was a virtual conference, with all presentations delivered via the Zoom online platform. 3. All papers have been evaluated by the editor and reviewed by a minimum of two reviewers. Also, some papers are sent back to the author for further revision after the presentation at the conference to amend the corrections suggested by the session chair. • Contact person for queries: Dr. Manoj A. Kumbhalkar, Conference Chair, ICRAMEN 2021. President, Research Association of Masters of Engineering (RAME), India. [email protected], [email protected]
