devpsych-review-process
Use when you need to understand how Developmental Psychology (APA) evaluates a manuscript — masked peer review, editorial weighting of developmental significance, design rigor (age/cohort, invariance, attrition), JARS reporting, and TOP transparency. Use when stress-testing a paper before submission or interpreting a decision letter. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill devpsych-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 (devpsych-review-process) Developmental Psychology combines theory-advancing selectivity with rigorous developmental-method scrutiny. The journal offers **masked peer review**, and editors and reviewers weigh not only whether the finding is interesting, but whether the **developmental claim is credible** (age vs. cohort, measurement invariance, attrition), whether reporting meets **JARS**, and whether transparency meets **TOP**. Knowing this lets you pre-empt the common rejection reasons. ## When to trigger - Before submitting, to stress-test the manuscript - Deciding whether to request masked review and how to anonymize - Interpreting a decision letter and setting expectations ## How review works 1. **Masked (anonymized) review available.** Authors may request masked review; if so, keep author identity out of the manuscript **and** out of shared links (see `devpsych-submission`). Masked review is intended to reduce bias against (e.g.) early-career or under-represented authors. 2. **Editorial triage.** The handling editor assesses developmental significance, theory advance, design rigor, and fit; weak-fit or "not-developmental" papers may be declined without full r
- When to trigger
- How review works
- What developmental reviewers reliably probe
- Desk-reject and decline-without-review patterns
- Worked micro-example (illustrative triage)
- How reviewers weigh the evidence (calibration anchors)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the devpsych-review-process skill do?
Use when you need to understand how Developmental Psychology (APA) evaluates a manuscript — masked peer review, editorial weighting of developmental significance, design rigor (age/cohort, invariance, attrition), JARS reporting, and TOP transparency. Use when stress-testing a paper before submission or interpreting a decision letter. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill devpsych-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.