cell
Use when targeting Cell (Cell Press) or deciding whether a cell/molecular-biology manuscript fits this flagship venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cell --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.
# Cell (cell) ## Journal positioning Cell is the Cell Press flagship and one of the most prestigious journals in life science, publishing conceptually transformative papers in cell and molecular biology, systems biology, genetics, and adjacent fields where the cell or molecule is the unit of discovery. Cell is not a general biology journal: it demands a complete, mechanistic molecular story validated to a depth that stands as the field's new benchmark. The readership is the global cell and molecular biology community, including scientists in adjacent disciplines (structural biology, immunology, neuroscience, cancer biology, microbiology) when the mechanistic insight has field-wide implications. An editorial triage is strict; editors look for papers that reframe how the field thinks, not just papers that add to an ongoing mechanistic program. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Cell Press site. ## When to trigger - The author names Cell as the target venue. - A mechanistic molecular-biology paper has deep validation and re
- 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 cell skill do?
Use when targeting Cell (Cell Press) or deciding whether a cell/molecular-biology manuscript fits this flagship venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, 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 cell --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.