Review

All submissions to ICSTM 2025 will be reviewed.

ICSTM program committee perform an initial review of the manuscript's suitability to ensure the submission falls within the scope of the conference upon receipt. And each manuscript will be checked if it has potential problem of plagiarism. Submissions that do not meet formatting, are out of the topical scope of the conference, not passing the plagiarism checking or are otherwise deemed non-competitive by the program chairs may be rejected directly immediately.

Only the papers passed the initial check will be double-blind peer-reviewed by 2 or 3 independent reviewers. Reviewers evaluate submissions based on the requirements of the conference proceedings, predefined criteria, and quality, completeness, originality and grammar of the research presented.

Authors are required to respond to the peer review comments in details and make revisions according to the points raised. The revised paper will be evaluated again. Usually, one round of revisions is allowed. Acceptance is granted when reviewers' recommendations are positive.