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# Statement of Peer Review

Gianni Bellocchi

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# Statement of Peer Review †

Gianni Bellocchi

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French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France;
gianni.bellocchi@inrae.fr

† Presented at the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Agronomy, 15–30 October 2023; Available online: https://iecag2023.sciforum.net/.

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*.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The author declares no conflict of interest.

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**Citation:** Bellocchi, G. Statement of Peer Review. *Biol. Life Sci. Forum* **2023**, *27*, 60. https://doi.org/10.3390/blsf2023027060

Published: 7 March 2024

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