ajs-data-and-transparency
Use when handling data documentation, sharing, and confidentiality for an American Journal of Sociology (AJS) manuscript. AJS does NOT advertise a mandatory editor-verified replication package like APSR/AJPS; document thoroughly, share what you ethically can, and verify the current policy. Prepares documentation; it does not over-state requirements.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ajs-data-and-transparency --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.
# Data & Transparency (ajs-data-and-transparency) AJS's public author guidance is **less prescriptive** on mandatory replication than APSR or AJPS: there is **no advertised editor-verified reproducibility deposit** comparable to a Dataverse verification step. Do **not** assert a requirement that AJS does not state. The right posture is: document thoroughly, share what you ethically can, protect informants, and **confirm the current supplementary-materials / data-availability policy on the live AJS pages** before submission. ## When to trigger - Preparing data documentation and any supplementary materials - Deciding what can be shared given confidentiality, IRB, or proprietary constraints - Documenting comparative-historical or ethnographic evidence so claims are checkable - A reader asked how others could verify or build on the analysis ## What AJS does / does not require (verify current wording) - **No advertised mandatory, editor-verified replication package.** Treat reproducibility as **good practice you choose**, not a stated gate; live-check current data-availability or supplementary policy before submission. - **Originality / overlap:** if the paper overlaps your prior publis
- When to trigger
- What AJS does / does not require (verify current wording)
- Good practice (do this even though AJS may not pre-verify)
- Transparency posture by tradition (an AJS decision table)
- Calibration (where AJS sits, hedged)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the ajs-data-and-transparency skill do?
Use when handling data documentation, sharing, and confidentiality for an American Journal of Sociology (AJS) manuscript. AJS does NOT advertise a mandatory editor-verified replication package like APSR/AJPS; document thoroughly, share what you ethically can, and verify the current policy. Prepares documentation; it does not over-state requirements.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ajs-data-and-transparency --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.