Statement of Peer Review ^†

In submitting conference proceedings to Engineering Proceedings, the volume editors of the proceedings certify to the publisher that all papers published in this volume have been subjected to peer review administered by the volume editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal.

• Type of peer review: single-blind

The type of peer review at the III International Congress on Technology and Innovation in Engineering and Computer Science, Lima, Peru, 20–24 November 2023, was a single-blind review in which the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers, but the reviewers do know the identity of the authors.

• Conference submission management system:

First phase: Submission of abstracts in lines through https://descubre.usil.edu.pe/eventos/congreso-ingenieria/. All accepted papers will be presented as 50 min papers during the congress. In this phase, the peer review was single-blind.

Submission: Submit a short abstract in English (300 words) by 30 October 2023.

Evaluation: The Scientific Committee will evaluate all submitted abstracts and authors will be notified about acceptance by 7 November 2023. Submitted papers must not be published or under review in any other national or international conference or publication.

Invitation: Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit proceedings papers by 20 November 2023 (maximum of 6 pages, in the template that will be sent by mail).

Presentation: All accepted papers will be presented during the congress orally and online for 50 min (20–24 November 2023).

Second Phase: Submission of proceedings papers of 6 to 9 sheets maximum according to the instructions for authors of Engineering Proceedings. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/engproc/instructions. In this phase, the peer review was single-blind.

• Number of submissions sent for review: 41.
• Number of submissions accepted: 31.

Abstracts approved in the first phase: 31.

Proceedings approved in the second phase: 26.

• Acceptance rate (number of submissions accepted/number of submissions received):

First phase: 1.32.

Second phase: 1.19.

• Average number of reviews per paper: 4.
• Total number of reviewers involved: 13.
• Any additional information on the review process:

Peer-review process and regulations:

The peer review was performed using the easy chair software. The chief editor of the congress performed a first review of compliance with the required format; if this first review was passed, each reviewer was notified via email, for which they had a period of 15 working days to give a first response: accepted, minor revisions, major revisions, and rejected.

The abstracts/proceedings were sent to at least two reviewers; if accepted in the first instance, the authors were notified by e-mail.

Abstracts/proceedings with minor revisions: authors were notified by email for comments within 7 working days.

Abstracts/proceedings with major revisions were rejected, and authors were notified by e-mail.

Rejected abstracts/proceedings were rejected in the first instance by the Editor-in-Chief without going to the reviewers, due to formatting and low-academic-level observations.