Statement of Peer Review ^†

In submitting the proceedings of the 5th Conference on Sustainability in Civil Engineering (CSCE) 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: double-blind
• Conference submission management system: through email
• Number of submissions received: 133
• Submissions sent for review: 72
• Number of submissions accepted: 56
• Acceptance rate (number of submissions accepted/number of submissions received): 42%
• The average number of reviews per paper: 3
• Total number of reviewers involved: 57
• Number of accepted submissions for MDPI: 18
• Any additional information on the review process: The papers which were received underwent a strict scrutiny process considering plagiarism (overall and single-source similarities should be present at a maximum of 19% and 4%, respectively), major formatting, completeness, referencing style, etc. Each paper needed at least two reviews. All modified papers again underwent a strict scrutiny process, positive consent was taken from technical committee members for papers presenting major concerns to ensure their quality before being accepted.