nature-plants
Use when targeting Nature Plants or deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the broad-significance and Nature-framing bar, evidence and reproducibility expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nature-plants --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 Plants (nature-plants) ## Journal positioning Nature Plants is the Nature Portfolio journal devoted to plant science in its full breadth — from molecular and cell biology through development, physiology, genetics, and evolution to ecology and crop science — including the plant-associated microbes and the agricultural and societal contexts in which plants matter. Its defining expectation is a **significant advance with broad significance**: a finding that changes how a wide plant-science readership thinks about a problem, not a clean but incremental result that extends one specialist literature. A technically sound, narrowly framed specialist paper with no broad significance is a poor fit, however careful the work. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Nature Plants submission guidance. ## When to trigger - The author names Nature Plants and wants a fit/framing check for a plant-science paper. - A specialist molecular, physiological, or ecological plant result must be re-framed into a broad-significance, Nature-style narrative for a wide plant audience. -
- 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-plants skill do?
Use when targeting Nature Plants or deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the broad-significance and Nature-framing bar, evidence and reproducibility expectations, 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-plants --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.