Statement of Peer Review—7th Iberian Congress on Cyanotoxins/3rd Iberoamerican Congress on Cyanotoxins

In submitting conference proceedings to Biology and Life Sciences Forum, 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.
• Conference submission management system: Authors submitted their abstracts through an online form available on the conference website; abstracts and evaluation forms were sent to reviewers by e-mail; when revisions were requested by reviewers, abstracts were sent back to the authors by email; and reviewed abstracts were re-evaluated by the same reviewer and/or by the editors. The final decision was communicated to the authors by email.
• Number of submissions sent for review: 59.
• Number of submissions accepted: 56.
• Acceptance rate (number of submissions accepted/number of submissions received): 0.949.
• Average number of reviews per paper: 1.
• Total number of reviewers involved: 16.
• Any additional information on the review process: none.