Peer review declaration

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 • Conference submission management system: 1. Sending materials to the organizers of the conference; 2. Verification of compliance with the subject of the conference; 3. Checking materials for plagiarism using two systems; 4. Submitting for double blind review; 5. Checking the quality of translation of the article into English; 6. Checking for the correct design of materials; 7. Submission of materials to the Publisher. • Number of submissions received: 1143 • Number of submissions sent for review: 1143 • Number of submissions accepted: 550 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 48% • Average number of reviews per paper: 2 • Total number of reviewers involved: 194 • Any additional info on review process: To be accepted for publication, the material must have the following requirements: compliance with the conference theme; a high level of originality of the text (at least 80%); positive expertise of reviewers; good level of English and well-formed material. The article should have: - the relevance (subject matter of the article should be interest to the scientific community in terms of the current development of science and technology); - the scientific character (the article should deal with considered the scientific aspects of the problem, even if the task itself has a practical bias); - the originality (results that presented in the article should have a scientific novelty, survey articles to be approved by the special decision of The International Program Committee). The article must be clearly structured to be generally accepted in scientific publications sections, namely: - introduction; - relevance, scientific significance of the question with a brief review of the literature; - setting of the problem; - the theoretical part; - practical significance, suggestions and case studies, the results of experiments; - conclusions. The results that presented in this paper must be justified by particular scientific tools: experimental mathematical conclusion, mathematical modeling, etc., in order to be considered them as sufficiently reliable. We do not accept materials containing only a hypothesis or untested proposals. The presented results should be formulated in the form of scientific statements, which clearly define a contribution to science. The article should be written in an understandable language for an expert in the relevant field. Generally accepted technical terms should be used. The manuscripts should contain the following information: - paper title; - author(s) data (name, title, affiliation, full mail address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address); - abstract; - keywords; - references. Contact person for queries: D B Solovev (solovev.db@dvfu.ru)