jama-scope-fit
Use when judging whether a clinical study clears JAMA's general-medical-importance bar before investing in a full submission. Assesses fit and article-type match; it does NOT design the study or write the paper.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jama-scope-fit --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.
# Scope & Importance Fit (jama-scope-fit) ## When to trigger - Before committing weeks to formatting a manuscript for JAMA - The finding feels solid but you suspect it is too narrow / subspecialty - Choosing between JAMA, a JAMA Network specialty journal, and a field journal - An editor or mentor asked "is this really a general-medicine paper?" ## The general-medical-importance test JAMA serves a broad clinician readership across all of medicine. Ask, in order: 1. **Does it change what a practicing clinician thinks or does?** A result that only matters to a single subspecialty lab rarely fits; a result that informs everyday diagnosis, treatment, or prevention does. 2. **Is the question clinically important, not just statistically novel?** Mechanistic novelty alone is off-fit; patient-relevant outcomes (mortality, function, major morbidity, validated patient-reported outcomes) are on-fit. 3. **Is the evidence near the top of the design hierarchy for the question?** RCTs, large well-controlled cohorts, rigorous diagnostic-accuracy studies, and systematic reviews/meta-analyses are the core. Underpowered pilots and uncontrolled case series are off-fit. 4. **Is it timely and generalizab
- When to trigger
- The general-medical-importance test
- Article-type match (verify current types on the journal site)
- What the JAMA desk editor screens before review
- Worked example: routing a vignette (illustrative)
- Reviewer / editor pushback and the JAMA fix
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jama-scope-fit skill do?
Use when judging whether a clinical study clears JAMA's general-medical-importance bar before investing in a full submission. Assesses fit and article-type match; it does NOT design the study or write the paper.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jama-scope-fit --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.