joc-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a Journal of Communication (JoC) manuscript — experimental and survey design, content analysis with intercoder reliability, computational/text-as-data validation, or qualitative/critical inquiry. JoC judges each tradition on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill joc-research-design --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.
# Research Design (joc-research-design) JoC accepts many methodologies but is demanding about each. The design must credibly connect the argument (`joc-theory-building`) to evidence. This skill is mode-aware: pick the section that matches your work and defend it against the strongest alternative explanation. ## When to trigger - Specifying an experiment, survey, content-analysis protocol, computational pipeline, or fieldwork plan - A reviewer questioned causal claims, sampling, coding reliability, validity, or a confound - Preparing a **preregistration** / pre-analysis plan (note it in the cover letter) - Justifying why your design adjudicates the rival account from `joc-literature-positioning` ## Experiments (lab / online / survey / field) - Preregister the design and primary analyses; report **a-priori power / MDE**; pre-specify subgroups. - Treatment realism and ecological validity; manipulation and attention checks; attrition. - Stimuli sampling: treat messages as a sample, not a fixture (consider stimulus-as-random-factor). - Ethics/IRB and informed consent; debrief where deception is used. ## Surveys / panels - Sampling frame, mode, and generalization claims; weighting where
- When to trigger
- Experiments (lab / online / survey / field)
- Surveys / panels
- Content analysis
- Computational / text-as-data
- Qualitative / critical
- The adjudication test (JoC-specific)
- Reviewer-pushback patterns and the JoC-specific fix
- Worked micro-example: framing survey-experiment design (illustrative)
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the joc-research-design skill do?
Use when defending the research design of a Journal of Communication (JoC) manuscript — experimental and survey design, content analysis with intercoder reliability, computational/text-as-data validation, or qualitative/critical inquiry. JoC judges each tradition on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill joc-research-design --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.