gec-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a Global Environmental Change (GEC) manuscript — quantitative causal inference, qualitative case work and process tracing, experiments and surveys, or mixed-methods integration. GEC welcomes methodological pluralism but judges each tradition on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill gec-research-design --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.
# Research Design (gec-research-design) GEC is methodologically pluralist: quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods work are all welcome, provided each is rigorous and connects the **conceptual framework** (`gec-conceptual-framework`) to evidence about the human dimensions of environmental change. This skill is mode-aware: pick the section that matches your work and defend it against the strongest alternative explanation. ## When to trigger - Specifying identification, case selection, sampling, or instrument design - A reviewer questioned causal claims, case choice, generalization, scale mismatch, or a confound - Designing a mixed-methods study and needing to justify the integration - Justifying how the design tests the framework's mechanism ## Quantitative / causal inference - **Estimand first.** State what you are estimating and the assumptions that license a causal reading (ignorability, parallel trends, exclusion, continuity). Defend them, don't assert them. - **Designs**: panel/DID and event study (use modern staggered-adoption estimators, not naive TWFE), IV (first-stage strength, exclusion), RDD, matching/weighting with balance + sensitivity, multilevel models for nested
- When to trigger
- Quantitative / causal inference
- Qualitative / case-based
- Experiments & surveys
- Mixed-methods integration
- The scale & adjudication test (GEC-specific)
- Anti-patterns
- Design objections by mode, and the GEC fix
- Worked micro-example (illustrative — mixed-methods coastal study)
- Calibration anchors (hedged)
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the gec-research-design skill do?
Use when defending the research design of a Global Environmental Change (GEC) manuscript — quantitative causal inference, qualitative case work and process tracing, experiments and surveys, or mixed-methods integration. GEC welcomes methodological pluralism but judges each tradition on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill gec-research-design --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.