Peer review declaration

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 • Conference submission management system: Easychair.org • Number of submissions received: 146 • Number of submissions sent for review: 135 • Number of submissions accepted: 97 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 66.43% • Average number of reviews per paper: 2 • Total number of reviewers involved: 62 • Any additional info on review process: The Selected papers were divided into different categories according to the research area. At first, the similarity index of each paper was evaluated using Turnitin software at SGT University. Then the papers were sent to the reviewers of related research areas for peer-review process. The referees argued (strong accept, accept, weak accept, borderline paper, weak reject, reject, strong reject), specifying their confidence (expert, high, medium, low, none) to the allocated papers for review. Rejected papers were sent back to the authors and asked for the revised version of paper according to the reviewer’s comments, if necessary but the revised version must meet the requirements. The selected papers by two reviewers were sent for the publications after the recommendation of the chief editor. • Contact person for queries: Dr. Ajay Conference Chair, ICMAI-2021 HOD and Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department ajay_feat@sgtuniversity.org ajay.kumar30886@gmail.com Ph. +91-8221808088