acta-materialia
Use when targeting Acta Materialia or deciding whether a structural-materials / physical-metallurgy manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the processing–structure–property–performance mechanism bar, characterization rigor, house style, the Acta-vs-Scripta and Acta-vs-functional-materials routing, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acta-materialia --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.
# Acta Materialia (acta-materialia) ## Journal positioning Acta Materialia is a leading archival journal of materials science and engineering with a structural-materials and physical-metallurgy center of gravity: the quantitative relationships among **processing, microstructure, properties, and performance** in metals, alloys, ceramics, and structural composites. The journal rewards papers that establish a mechanism — why a microstructure forms and how it governs a property — over papers that merely report that a new processing route changed a number. Purely incremental "new alloy, slightly better property" studies without mechanistic insight are a weak fit. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Acta Materialia Guide for Authors. ## When to trigger - The author names Acta Materialia for a metallurgy, ceramics, or structural-materials manuscript and wants a fit/framing check. - A materials paper must be re-framed from "we made and measured X" into a processing–structure–property mechanism story. - The author is deciding between Acta Materialia, a rapid-co
- 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 acta-materialia skill do?
Use when targeting Acta Materialia or deciding whether a structural-materials / physical-metallurgy manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the processing–structure–property–performance mechanism bar, characterization rigor, house style, the Acta-vs-Scripta and Acta-vs-functional-materials routing, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acta-materialia --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.