aejmac-referee-strategy
Use when anticipating the objections referees and coeditors will raise on an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript, and calibrating desk-reject and revision odds, before submission. Pre-empts pushback and plans the review; it does not draft the post-decision response letter (use aejmac-rebuttal).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-referee-strategy --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.
# Referee Strategy (aejmac-referee-strategy) ## When to trigger - The draft is near-complete and you want to find the holes a referee will exploit - You are gauging desk-reject risk or whether the paper is "ready" - You need to decide which robustness checks to run *before* submitting vs. hold in reserve - You want to pre-empt the predictable macro objections in the paper itself ## How AEJ: Macro review works (verified 2026-06; re-confirm on the official AEA pages) - Managed by the **Editor** (Ayşegül Şahin, 检索于 2026-06；以官网为准) and **coeditors**; **single-blind** external peer review (the author is known to the referee; referees are anonymous to the author). Note this is **single-blind**, unlike some AEJs/economics venues that anonymize the author. - **Desk rejection** is possible without referees; editorial decisions weigh the probability of meeting AEJ: Macro standards, **breadth of topic, and interest to the AEJ: Macro audience**. - After conditional acceptance, the **AEA Data Editor** runs the reproducibility check before publication (see `aejmac-replication-package`). ## The predictable macro objections (pre-empt each in the paper) | Objection a macro referee raises | Where it
- When to trigger
- The predictable macro objections (pre-empt each in the paper)
- Calibrating the odds
- Suggesting referees & framing the cover
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the aejmac-referee-strategy skill do?
Use when anticipating the objections referees and coeditors will raise on an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript, and calibrating desk-reject and revision odds, before submission. Pre-empts pushback and plans the review; it does not draft the post-decision response letter (use aejmac-rebuttal).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-referee-strategy --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.