nature
Use when targeting Nature or deciding whether a manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nature --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.
# Nature (nature) ## Journal positioning Nature is the world's most broadly read scientific weekly, published by Springer Nature. It publishes a tiny selection of primary research that represents a single, decisive conceptual or empirical advance of exceptional significance to scientists across disciplines — not just to specialists in the author's field. The readership spans biology, physics, chemistry, earth science, and beyond; every paper must therefore tell a compelling story to a scientifically literate non-specialist. Almost all manuscripts are desk-rejected by editors before reaching peer review because they do not clear the broad-significance bar. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Springer Nature site and the submission system. ## When to trigger - The author names Nature as the target venue. - A manuscript represents a single, paradigm-shifting result and the author is deciding between Nature, Science, and Cell. - A specialist paper needs radical re-framing into a one-sentence "why the world needs to know this
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the nature skill do?
Use when targeting Nature or deciding whether a manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nature --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 984 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.