current-biology
Use when targeting Current Biology or deciding whether a general-biology manuscript fits this 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 current-biology --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.
# Current Biology (current-biology) ## Journal positioning Current Biology is Cell Press's broad biology journal, covering the full range of life sciences — from molecular and cell biology through developmental biology, neuroscience, ecology, evolution, and animal behavior — with the unifying criterion that each paper must report a novel, complete advance that is interesting to biologists outside the primary specialty. Unlike the focused Cell Press sibling journals (Neuron, Immunity, Cancer Cell), Current Biology deliberately embraces cross-disciplinary scope; its dual currency is rigor plus novelty-with-breadth. The readership is biologists broadly, so a paper must carry an accessible narrative hook alongside the technical contribution. 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 or submission system. ## When to trigger - The author names Current Biology as the target venue. - A study spans two or more biological disciplines and the author is unsure whether it belongs at Current Biology vs. a focused Cell Press t
- 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 current-biology skill do?
Use when targeting Current Biology or deciding whether a general-biology manuscript fits this 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 current-biology --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 984 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.