geology
Use when targeting Geology (GSA) or deciding whether a short, high-impact geoscience research letter fits this venue. Encodes the journal's broad-significance-in-tight-length fit, the novelty and rapid-communication bar, GSA house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill geology --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.
# Geology (geology) ## Journal positioning Geology is the Geological Society of America's flagship outlet for **short, high-impact research letters across the geosciences**. The defining expectation is a contribution that is at once **novel, broadly significant, and concisely framed for a wide geoscience audience** within a tight length limit — a result that changes how a broad readership thinks about an earth process, delivered rapidly. The constraint is as much editorial as scientific: the science must be both important and compressible to a few pages, with the significance legible to non-specialists. A thorough but incremental study, a regional report without wide implications, or a paper that genuinely needs full article length to make its case is a poor fit, regardless of quality. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current author guidance. Before submitting, re-check the live Geology / GSA author instructions and data policy. ## When to trigger - The author names Geology and wants a fit/framing check for a short, high-significance geoscience result. - A finding with wide implications must be compressed into a tight, b
- 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 geology skill do?
Use when targeting Geology (GSA) or deciding whether a short, high-impact geoscience research letter fits this venue. Encodes the journal's broad-significance-in-tight-length fit, the novelty and rapid-communication bar, GSA 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 geology --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.