developmental-cell
Use when targeting Developmental Cell or deciding whether a developmental or cell-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 developmental-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.
# Developmental Cell (developmental-cell) ## Journal positioning Developmental Cell is Cell Press's dedicated venue for developmental biology and cell biology, publishing mechanistic studies of how cells are built, how they acquire identity, divide, migrate, and organize into tissues and organs — and how these processes go wrong in disease. The journal uniquely bridges classical developmental genetics (fate specification, morphogenesis, organogenesis) and modern cell biology (cytoskeletal dynamics, organelle biology, cell polarity, the cell cycle) under a single mechanistic umbrella. The readership spans developmental biologists, cell biologists, and stem-cell researchers; studies need a clear mechanistic principle, not just an in vivo phenotype. 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 Developmental Cell as the target venue. - A study straddles developmental biology and cell biology and the author is choosing between Developmental Cell, Current Biolog
- 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 developmental-cell skill do?
Use when targeting Developmental Cell or deciding whether a developmental or cell-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 developmental-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 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.