advmat-scope-fit
Use when deciding whether a materials result clears Advanced Materials' advance-and-broad-impact gate, or whether it belongs in Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, Small, or Advanced Materials Interfaces. Diagnoses venue fit; does not write or characterize the material.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill advmat-scope-fit --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.
# Advanced Materials Scope Fit (advmat-scope-fit) ## When to trigger - You suspect the work is solid but may be "incremental optimization" - You cannot articulate why a materials scientist outside your subfield should care - A coauthor asks "Adv. Mater. or Adv. Funct. Mater.?" - An editor has previously bounced similar work on novelty/impact grounds - Before investing in cover-quality figures and full characterization, you want a go / no-go on venue ## The two-part gate (both must pass) Advanced Materials publishes across all of materials science — materials chemistry, nanotechnology, energy materials (batteries, photovoltaics, catalysis), electronics and optoelectronics, biomaterials, soft matter, and structural materials. The gate is two tests, AND-ed: 1. **Genuine advance** — Is there a *new material*, a *new mechanism*, or a *new property/performance regime* — not an incremental gain on an existing system? A record efficiency alone is not an advance if it comes from routine tuning; a new design principle that unlocks it is. 2. **Broad impact** — Would researchers in a *neighboring* materials community (or a device/application field) find this consequential? An advance is broad
- When to trigger
- The two-part gate (both must pass)
- Decision table
- How to stress-test the gate
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the advmat-scope-fit skill do?
Use when deciding whether a materials result clears Advanced Materials' advance-and-broad-impact gate, or whether it belongs in Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, Small, or Advanced Materials Interfaces. Diagnoses venue fit; does not write or characterize the material.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill advmat-scope-fit --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.