USG United Scientific Group and the organizing committee members of
Plant-2026 ensures a rigorous, high-quality and unbiased peer review process for all
abstracts submitted to the conference. The decision of abstract acceptance will be
judged by a panel of expert reviewers and / or session chair and / or conference
chairman emphasizing whether the findings and / or conclusions are novel and make useful
contributions to the field.
The committee will determine whether the abstract is more
appropriate for oral or poster presentation. Eligibility for oral or poster presentation
will be determined by the total score (with adjustment for differential scoring behavior
between referees).
The committee operates a single / double-blind peer review process
for all the abstracts submitted, where both the reviewer and the author remain
anonymous.
The following are the steps that each abstract of Plant-2026 undergoes
during the process of peer review:
- All submitted abstracts are reviewed by internal editorial team
to ensure adherence to the conference scope and abstracts which have passed this
initial screening are then assigned to the session chair / review committee for
evaluation.
- The session chair / review committee decides whether reviews
from appropriate independent experts / reviewers are needed to evaluate the
abstract. External reviewer (s) evaluate majority of the submissions, but it is up
to the session chair / review committee to determine the number of reviews required.
- Once the reviews have been received, the session chair / review
committee decides to accept or reject a manuscript, or to request revisions from the
author in response to the reviewers’ comments. If the decision is minor revision or
major revision, authors will be given 14 days to resubmit the revised abstract.
Abstracts submitted by invited and/or keynote speakers will be reviewed by conference
chairman.
Criteria to be Considered for Scoring
The abstract should be reviewed according to the following criteria:
- Originality of concept/approach and level of innovativeness
- Significance/impact/relevance to conference theme
- Quality of research design/theoretical argument
- Conclusions and interpretations of results
- Presentation style: coherence and clarity of structure
