acs-central-science
Use when targeting ACS Central Science (ACS Cent. Sci.) or deciding whether a chemistry manuscript fits this open-access, broad, high-impact venue for chemistry of central importance. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acs-central-science --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# ACS Central Science (acs-central-science) ## Journal positioning ACS Central Science (ACS Cent. Sci.) is the American Chemical Society's flagship open-access journal, publishing work of broad and central importance to the chemical sciences. Its defining character is centrality and reach: the journal seeks discoveries where chemistry sits at the heart of a significant advance, including work at the interfaces of chemistry with biology, medicine, materials, energy, and the physical sciences. A paper belongs here when the result is not only rigorous but consequential to a wide audience — the kind of advance chemists across subfields would want to know about. It is fully open access at no charge to authors, lowering barriers to dissemination of high-impact chemistry. Readership is the entire chemical community and adjacent fields. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the ACS Central Science site. ## When to trigger - The author names ACS Central Science as the target venue for a broadly important, central chemical advance with r
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the acs-central-science skill do?
Use when targeting ACS Central Science (ACS Cent. Sci.) or deciding whether a chemistry manuscript fits this open-access, broad, high-impact venue for chemistry of central importance. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acs-central-science --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.