aeja-referee-strategy

npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-referee-strategy --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

# Referee Strategy (aeja-referee-strategy) ## When to trigger - The paper is near submission and you want to stress-test it against the referees it will draw - You need to decide which robustness checks to run *before* submitting vs. hold in reserve - An R&R arrived and you must map referee concerns to concrete responses - You want to understand how AEJ: Applied's single-blind peer-review process shapes strategy ## How AEJ: Applied review works (plan around it) AEJ: Applied uses **single-blind review** through the AEA ScholarOne system: author identities are visible to referees, while referee identities remain anonymous to authors. An editor assigns the paper to a coeditor or handles it directly, and before a first R&R the handling coeditor consults a second coeditor. Referees here are **identification-literate applied microeconomists**; the modal report attacks the *credibility of the design* first, then magnitude/mechanism, then external validity. The editor weighs whether the contribution is novel *and* the design clears the bar. Plan to **pre-empt the predictable objections in the paper itself**, leaving the response letter for genuinely new asks. ## The objection map (pre-empt