jhr-rebuttal
Use when a Journal of Human Resources (JHR) revise-and-resubmit arrives and you must plan the response letter — answering referees and the handling editor, satisfying the reconciliation and sensitivity demands, and confirming no fee applies to invited revisions. Strategy and structure; it does not write your results.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhr-rebuttal --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.
# R&R Rebuttal Strategy (jhr-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - A JHR R&R or conditional-acceptance letter arrived - You need to structure point-by-point responses to referees and the editor - Referees asked you to reconcile with prior estimates or add sensitivity tests - You are unsure how much weight to give the handling editor vs. the referees ## JHR-specific framing - **No fee for invited revisions** — the $175 charge is initial-submission only, so resubmit cleanly without budgeting again. - **Single-anonymous review:** referees know who you are; keep the tone collegial and specific, and avoid defensive or status-based appeals. - **The reconciliation requirement carries into revision.** If referees ask why your estimates differ from prior published work, the expected response is **comparative estimation** (re-run under the prior spec/sample) plus **sensitivity tests** — not prose alone. JHR explicitly may require this. - The **handling editor (coeditor/associate editor)** synthesizes the reports; when referees conflict, anchor your plan to the editor's letter and say so. ## Response-letter structure 1. **Cover note to the editor** — summarize the 3-5 most substantive changes; state
- When to trigger
- JHR-specific framing
- Response-letter structure
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Common referee pushback at JHR and the expected fix
- Worked response excerpt
- Triage order for a multi-referee letter
- Output format
What does the jhr-rebuttal skill do?
Use when a Journal of Human Resources (JHR) revise-and-resubmit arrives and you must plan the response letter — answering referees and the handling editor, satisfying the reconciliation and sensitivity demands, and confirming no fee applies to invited revisions. Strategy and structure; it does not write your results.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhr-rebuttal --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.