automatica
Use when targeting Automatica or deciding whether a systems-and-control manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the methodological-breadth-with-guarantees bar, theory rigor, the Automatica-vs-TAC routing, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill automatica --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.
# Automatica (automatica) ## Journal positioning Automatica is the IFAC-affiliated flagship journal of systems and control, publishing rigorous, methodologically developed contributions across control, estimation, identification, optimization, and the analysis of dynamical systems. The defining expectation is a **method with theoretical guarantees** — stability, convergence, optimality, robustness — developed with enough breadth and depth to constitute an archival advance, not a single narrow result. Compared with its sibling `ieee-transactions-on-automatic-control`, Automatica leans toward fuller methodological development and breadth, whereas TAC also carries sharp short Technical Notes; route by the **form and length of the main result**. Application papers that tune a known controller, and simulation studies with no generalizable guarantee, are a poor fit. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Automatica author information. ## When to trigger - The author names Automatica for a control, estimation, identification, or systems-theory manuscript and wan
- 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 automatica skill do?
Use when targeting Automatica or deciding whether a systems-and-control manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the methodological-breadth-with-guarantees bar, theory rigor, the Automatica-vs-TAC routing, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill automatica --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.