Statement of Peer Review ^†

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 the volume have been peer-reviewed by the volume editors. The reviews were carried out by expert referees in accordance with professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal.

• Type of peer review: single-blind
• Conference submission management system: Sciforum
• Number of submissions sent for review: 234
• Number of submissions accepted: 81
• Number of submissions published: 58
• Acceptance rate (number of submissions accepted/number of submissions received): 0.35
• Average number of reviews per paper: 1
• Total number of reviewers involved: 48
• Any additional information on the review process: All submissions were processed entirely online using MDPI’s Sciforum platform. This included the submission of abstracts, presentation files, and manuscripts; a preliminary check of the format and template by the event organizers; an initial peer review of the submissions by the event chair; a full peer review by external international reviewers; the submission of revised versions by the authors; and a final check and acceptance by the reviewers and event chairs. Further checks for compliance with MDPI standards on plagiarism were carried out by the editors of MDPI’s journal, Biology and Life Sciences Forum.