aerj-review-process
Use to understand how an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript will be judged — masked/double-anonymous peer review, desk screening, integrated-journal fit, and decision categories. Sets expectations and informs strategy; it does not contact editors or reviewers.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aerj-review-process --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.
# Review Process (aerj-review-process) Knowing how AERJ evaluates a paper shapes how you write and submit it. AERJ uses **masked / double-anonymous review**, screens for fit before sending out for review, and expects a contribution that reaches the integrated field-wide AERJ audience. Verify volatile specifics (timelines, reviewer counts, desk-reject rate) on the official page — they are not published as fixed numbers. ## When to trigger - Setting expectations before or after submission - Anticipating likely reviewer objections to pre-empt in the draft - Understanding why a desk rejection happened, or what an R&R signals - Deciding how to frame the cover letter for integrated AERJ fit ## How AERJ review works (verify current details) 1. **Fit framing.** The manuscript names its dominant education-research lens and why the contribution matters beyond one subfield. 2. **Editorial screening / desk decision.** Editors first assess **fit and quality** — broad significance, framing, methodological soundness, and adherence to scope/standards. Off-fit or clearly under-developed papers may be **desk-rejected** without external review. 3. **Masked external review.** Suitable papers go to mul
- When to trigger
- How AERJ review works (verify current details)
- What reviewers reward (write toward these)
- Anti-patterns
- How a manuscript moves through AERJ (decision map)
- Worked review vignette (illustrative)
- Pre-empting the likely objections
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the aerj-review-process skill do?
Use to understand how an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript will be judged — masked/double-anonymous peer review, desk screening, integrated-journal fit, and decision categories. Sets expectations and informs strategy; it does not contact editors or reviewers.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aerj-review-process --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.