chemical-reviews
Use when targeting Chemical Reviews (Chem Rev) or deciding whether a chemistry review manuscript fits this ACS venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. NOTE: Chemical Reviews is a largely INVITED venue; unsolicited primary-data manuscripts will be desk-rejected.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill chemical-reviews --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.
# Chemical Reviews (chemical-reviews) ## Journal positioning Chemical Reviews, published by the American Chemical Society, is one of the most authoritative and widely cited venues for comprehensive review articles across all areas of chemistry. The journal publishes definitive, exhaustive treatments of mature or rapidly evolving research areas — not opinion pieces, not progress reports, and not primary research articles. Chemical Reviews is a **largely invited venue**: the majority of reviews are commissioned by the editors from leaders in a sub-field; unsolicited review proposals are accepted but must clear a higher bar of timeliness, comprehensiveness, and author authority. Submitting primary experimental data here is a categorical mismatch. 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 ACS submission system. ## When to trigger - The author has received an invitation from Chemical Reviews editors, or is preparing an unsolicited review proposal. - A comprehensive review of a chemistry sub-field needs evaluation against the Chem 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 chemical-reviews skill do?
Use when targeting Chemical Reviews (Chem Rev) or deciding whether a chemistry review manuscript fits this ACS venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. NOTE: Chemical Reviews is a largely INVITED venue; unsolicited primary-data manuscripts will be desk-rejected.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill chemical-reviews --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.