analysis
Use when targeting Analysis or deciding whether a short, focused philosophy manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's identity as a home for crisp, single-point articles, counterexamples, and replies; the argument-rigor bar; the brevity-and-focus house style and double-blind norms; official-submission re-check; and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill analysis --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.
# Analysis (analysis) ## Journal positioning Analysis, published by Oxford University Press for the Analysis Trust, is the home of **short, focused philosophical articles and notes** — its identity is brevity and a single sharp point. A canonical Analysis piece makes one crisp argument, presents a decisive counterexample, or mounts a tight reply to a recent paper, and it does so in a few pages rather than a sustained treatise. Its defining expectation is a **clear, valid, original argument compressed to its essentials**: state the point, make it, dispatch the obvious objection, and stop. A long, multi-part article that develops many threads is a misfit here no matter how good — Analysis rewards the one-idea paper that earns its space. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** aid. It does not replace the journal's current submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Analysis author instructions. ## When to trigger - The author names Analysis for a short philosophy note or article and wants a fit/framing check. - A paper has one sharp idea, counterexample, or reply that should be compressed to Analysis's brevity-and-focus form. - The author is deciding wh
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the analysis skill do?
Use when targeting Analysis or deciding whether a short, focused philosophy manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's identity as a home for crisp, single-point articles, counterexamples, and replies; the argument-rigor bar; the brevity-and-focus house style and double-blind norms; official-submission re-check; and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill analysis --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.