arpsych-organizing-framework
Use when imposing an analytical structure or taxonomy on a psychology literature for an Annual Review of Psychology (ARPsych) review — the "spine" that turns a reading list into an argument about the field. Designs the framework; it does not gather the literature (arpsych-literature-synthesis) or judge coverage and balance (arpsych-comprehensiveness-and-balance).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill arpsych-organizing-framework --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.
# Organizing Framework — the Review's Spine (arpsych-organizing-framework) ## When to trigger - The evidence matrix is built but the draft would read like a list of studies - Sections are named after methods ("fMRI studies", "behavioral studies") rather than ideas - A reader could not predict what comes next or why studies are grouped as they are - You cannot state in one sentence the *argument* the review makes about the field ## Why the spine is the whole game at ARPsych The most-cited reason review articles fail is that they are **annotated bibliographies**: study-after-study summaries with no organizing idea. A great ARPsych review **imposes a structure the field did not have** — a taxonomy, a unifying model, a sequence of questions, or a process diagram — that makes scattered work legible to a psychologist from an adjacent area. The framework is the contribution; the citations are the evidence. ARPsych's accessibility mandate raises the bar: the spine must be graspable by a *non-specialist psychologist* (a social psychologist reading a memory review) on one read. Choose it deliberately: | Spine type | Organizes the field by | Best when | |-----------|------------------------|-
- When to trigger
- Why the spine is the whole game at ARPsych
- The test of a good framework
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the arpsych-organizing-framework skill do?
Use when imposing an analytical structure or taxonomy on a psychology literature for an Annual Review of Psychology (ARPsych) review — the "spine" that turns a reading list into an argument about the field. Designs the framework; it does not gather the literature (arpsych-literature-synthesis) or judge coverage and balance (arpsych-comprehensiveness-and-balance).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill arpsych-organizing-framework --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.