imfer-referee-strategy
Use when anticipating the objections a dual academic/policy IMF Economic Review (IMFER) referee will raise, so a manuscript pre-empts them before submission or addresses them in revision. Plans the defense; it does not draft the response letter (imfer-rebuttal) or run the submission preflight (imfer-submission).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imfer-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 (imfer-referee-strategy) ## When to trigger - The paper is near submission and you want to stress-test it against the referees it will draw - You must decide which robustness/identification checks to run *before* submitting vs. hold in reserve - An R&R arrived and you must map referee concerns to concrete responses - You want to understand how IMFER's double-blind, dual-audience review shapes strategy ## How IMFER review works (plan around it) IMFER uses **double-blind review** through Editorial Manager (anonymize the main file and self-citations) (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). The distinctive feature is the **referee pool**: typically one frontier international-macro researcher *and* readers attuned to **policy relevance and IMF-program realism**. The modal report attacks (1) the **credibility of the cross-country / policy-surprise design**, then (2) **country composition and external validity**, then (3) **whether the policy implication is actually warranted**. A clean estimate with an over-reached or under-developed policy claim is a common rejection. Plan to **pre-empt the predictable objections in the paper** and reserve the letter for genuinely new asks. | Referee ob
- When to trigger
- How IMFER review works (plan around it)
- Triaging which checks to run before vs. after
- Strategy craft
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Referee pushback mapped to the pre-emption
- Output format
What does the imfer-referee-strategy skill do?
Use when anticipating the objections a dual academic/policy IMF Economic Review (IMFER) referee will raise, so a manuscript pre-empts them before submission or addresses them in revision. Plans the defense; it does not draft the response letter (imfer-rebuttal) or run the submission preflight (imfer-submission).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imfer-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 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.