expecon-referee-strategy
Use when anticipating the experimentalist referee's objections for an Experimental Economics (ExpEcon) manuscript before submission. Pre-empts the standard pushbacks; it does not draft the response letter (see expecon-rebuttal).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill expecon-referee-strategy --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.
# Referee Strategy (expecon-referee-strategy) ## When to trigger - The paper is analytically done and you want to pre-empt the objections an ExpEcon referee will raise - You suspect a specific weak point (a borderline procedure, modest power, a confound) and want to disarm it before submission - You need to decide what to add now vs. defend in the letter later - You want to read the draft the way two editors and two anonymous referees will ## Who reviews you here, and what they look for Experimental Economics uses **anonymous (double-blind) refereeing**, and accepted papers need the approval of **two editors** (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). Your referees are practicing experimentalists. They are unimpressed by topical novelty and intensely focused on **design integrity**. They read in a predictable order: gates first, then the contrast, then inference, then reproducibility. Pre-empt each. ## The standard pushbacks, ranked by lethality 1. **"This is deception / the incentives aren't real."** Lethal and binary. If any procedure could be read as deceptive, name it explicitly and explain why it is *not* deception under the ESA definition (withholding ≠ misstating). Confirm every elicitation is i
- When to trigger
- Who reviews you here, and what they look for
- The standard pushbacks, ranked by lethality
- Turning anticipated objections into pre-emptive moves
- A pre-submission self-review pass
- The demand-effect and experimenter-effect family
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Shaping the cover letter and reviewer pool
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- What the desk editor screens before referees ever see it
- Output format
What does the expecon-referee-strategy skill do?
Use when anticipating the experimentalist referee's objections for an Experimental Economics (ExpEcon) manuscript before submission. Pre-empts the standard pushbacks; it does not draft the response letter (see expecon-rebuttal).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill expecon-referee-strategy --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.