brain
Use when targeting Brain or deciding whether a clinical-neurology or translational-neuroscience study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the mechanistic-depth-with-clinical-relevance evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, Guarantors of Brain/OUP house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill brain --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.
# Brain (brain) ## Journal positioning Brain is published by the Guarantors of Brain (Oxford University Press) and is a leading journal of clinical neurology and translational neuroscience, distinguished by its demand for both **mechanistic depth and clinical relevance** to human nervous-system disease — neurodegeneration, epilepsy, movement disorders, neuroimmunology and neuro-inflammation, neuromuscular disease, neuro-oncology, and the genetics, imaging, and pathology that illuminate disease mechanisms. It serves academic neurologists and neuroscientists and expects work that advances understanding of how a neurological disease arises or progresses, grounded in human data or strongly disease-relevant models; routine clinical-trial reporting without mechanistic insight, and bench neuroscience with no clear disease anchor, are a weak fit. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** aid; it is not clinical or regulatory advice and does not replace the journal's current instructions for authors. Before submitting, re-check the live Brain author instructions. ## When to trigger - The author names Brain for a mechanistic clinical-neurology or translational-neuroscience study
- 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 brain skill do?
Use when targeting Brain or deciding whether a clinical-neurology or translational-neuroscience study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the mechanistic-depth-with-clinical-relevance evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, Guarantors of Brain/OUP house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill brain --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.