ajps-replication-and-verification
Use when building the replication package for an American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) manuscript. AJPS is famous for MANDATORY third-party PRE-publication verification — an independent verifier re-runs your deposited code and confirms it reproduces the numerical results in the main text before the article is published, with materials deposited to the AJPS Dataverse on Harvard Dataverse. Prepares the package; it does not waive requirements.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ajps-replication-and-verification --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.
# Replication & Verification (ajps-replication-and-verification) This is AJPS's signature differentiator. Unlike journals that check reproducibility in-house (or not at all), **AJPS sends your deposited materials to an independent third party that actually re-runs the code** and confirms it reproduces the numerical results reported in the **main text** — *before* publication. If it does not reproduce, the article does not publish until it does. Build the package as you analyze (`ajps-data-analysis`); it cannot be improvised at acceptance. ## When to trigger - Building the replication / verification package - A manuscript is accepted and you have received upload instructions (after final draft, during the technical check, before copyediting) - Data cannot be fully shared (privacy, ethics, provider restriction) and you need a path - A **qualitative** or **multi-method** paper whose evidence needs a documented verification route ## How AJPS verification actually works (official baseline checked 2026-06-20) 1. **Deposit to the AJPS Dataverse.** Materials go into a Dataset within the **AJPS Dataverse on the Harvard Dataverse Network** — not a personal site or generic cloud link. Other c
- When to trigger
- How AJPS verification actually works (official baseline checked 2026-06-20)
- Build-as-you-go checklist (so the re-run matches)
- When data cannot be shared
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the ajps-replication-and-verification skill do?
Use when building the replication package for an American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) manuscript. AJPS is famous for MANDATORY third-party PRE-publication verification — an independent verifier re-runs your deposited code and confirms it reproduces the numerical results in the main text before the article is published, with materials deposited to the AJPS Dataverse on Harvard Dataverse. Prepares the package; it does not waive requirements.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ajps-replication-and-verification --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.