Appendix C: Peer Review Declaration Form

Peer review declaration The Organiser and/or the Editor(s) are required to declare details about their peer review processes. Therefore, please provide the following information: • Type of peer review: Single-blind • Describe criteria used by Reviewers when accepting/declining papers. Was there the opportunity to resubmit articles after revisions? 1. Review Criteria: > Relevance to the main topics of the conference. > Innovation of the content of papers. > Academic contribution of papers. > Clarity of presentation of papers. > Overall assessment. In summary, papers that meet the above requirements or meet the requirements after revision based on review comments would be accepted, otherwise would be rejected. 2. The authors could resubmit the paper after revising and improving it according to the reviewers’ comments. • Conference submission management system: https://www.aconf.cn/ccp_181100/submission?search_type=title&s=&status%5B6%5D=6&status%5B7%5D=7&track_id=&review_type=abstract_score&review_score%5B0%5D=0&review_score%5B1%5D=10&rows=500 • Number of submissions received:166 • Number of submissions sent for review:161 • Number of submissions accepted:124 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received × 100):74.7 • Average number of reviews per paper:1.06 • Total number of reviewers involved:59 • Any additional info on review process (eg Plagiarism check system): No • Contact person for queries (Full name, affiliation, institutional email address) Lin Zhou, China Society for Technology of Plasticity, CMES duanya@cmes.org, zz_lin@163.com Please submit this form along with the rest of your files on the Submission Date. The information you provide will be published as part of the Work.