curranthro-review-process
Use when you need to understand how Current Anthropology (CA) evaluates a manuscript — editorial screening, peer review, and the distinctive CA✩ Treatment in which an accepted Major Article is sent to invited commentators whose signed Comments are published alongside it, followed by the author's Reply. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive both review and public commentary; it does not contact editors.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill curranthro-review-process --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.
# Review Process & the CA✩ Treatment (curranthro-review-process) Knowing how CA screens, decides, and *publicly commentates* lets you pre-empt the failure modes before submitting. CA is the transnational, all-fields journal published by the **University of Chicago Press for the Wenner-Gren Foundation**, and its defining mechanism is the **CA✩ Treatment** — a layer of **signed, published peer commentary plus the author's Reply** that no sibling journal applies. The bar is field-shaping significance plus sound, ethical evidence, *and* an argument that can withstand being debated in print. ## When to trigger - Before submitting, to stress-test against editorial screening and the CA✩ commentary - Choosing the right **article type** (only Major Articles get the full CA✩ Treatment) - Interpreting a decision letter and setting expectations - Understanding what reviewers — and later, commentators — are asked to weigh ## How CA review works 1. **Editorial screening first.** The editor(s) assess fit, all-fields significance, and obvious ethics issues before sending out for review. A technically fine but subfield-bound paper can be returned or redirected here. (CA receives roughly 230 manuscr
- When to trigger
- How CA review works
- The two audiences you must satisfy
- Shape the paper to pass — and to reward commentary
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Calibration anchors (hedged)
- Supplementary resources
What does the curranthro-review-process skill do?
Use when you need to understand how Current Anthropology (CA) evaluates a manuscript — editorial screening, peer review, and the distinctive CA✩ Treatment in which an accepted Major Article is sent to invited commentators whose signed Comments are published alongside it, followed by the author's Reply. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive both review and public commentary; it does not contact editors.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill curranthro-review-process --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.