eer-rebuttal
Use when a European Economic Review (EER) decision letter arrives (R&R or reject-with-appeal grounds) and a response strategy and letter are needed. Plans the revision and drafts the point-by-point response; it does not run new estimation or rewrite the whole paper.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eer-rebuttal --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.
# Rebuttal & Response Letter (eer-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - An EER **R&R** (major or minor) arrived and you need a revision plan + response letter - Referee reports conflict and you must triage what to do - You are weighing a formal **appeal** of a reject (one appeal per submission) - You need to convert reports into a credible, point-by-point response ## The EER revision reality EER decisions are **accept / R&R (major or minor) / reject**, with desk rejects possible without review. Under **single-anonymized** review the referees know who you are — the response must be **professional, complete, and non-defensive**. The editor decides; referees advise. A successful R&R does the **substantive work the reports ask for**, documents it transparently, and makes the editor's re-read easy. EER permits **one formal appeal** per submission (Elsevier appeal policy; the decision is final) — reserve it for a clear factual/process error, not disagreement with judgment. ## Building the response ### 1. Triage the reports - Sort every comment into: **must-do** (identification/robustness/credibility), **should-do** (clarity, added test), **discuss-only** (out-of-scope or contradicting another r
- When to trigger
- The EER revision reality
- Building the response
- 1. Triage the reports
- 2. Do the substantive work first
- 3. Draft the point-by-point letter
- 4. Keep the paper coherent
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the eer-rebuttal skill do?
Use when a European Economic Review (EER) decision letter arrives (R&R or reject-with-appeal grounds) and a response strategy and letter are needed. Plans the revision and drafts the point-by-point response; it does not run new estimation or rewrite the whole paper.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eer-rebuttal --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.