jegeo-referee-strategy

npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jegeo-referee-strategy --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

# Referee Strategy (jegeo-referee-strategy) ## When to trigger - Before submission, to pre-empt the objections a two-community panel will raise - The paper leans heavily toward one tradition and you need to armor the side a hostile referee will attack - You want to decide which robustness/exhibit work is worth doing *now* vs. holding for an R&R - You are choosing which reviewers to suggest or oppose for a JEG submission ## The defining feature: you will face both communities JEG's review almost always pairs **an economist** and **a geographer** (the board is drawn from both, and editors deliberately route across the bridge). Their objections are systematically different, and a paper that satisfies one often provokes the other. Plan for both, in one manuscript, under **double-anonymous** review. | The economist referee tends to attack | The geographer referee tends to attack | |----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------| | identification, selection, weak instruments | "where is the geography?" — space as mere fixed effect | | spatial autocorrelation / overstated inference | absence of mechanism, context, or institutional texture | | external va