nejm
Use when targeting The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) or deciding whether a clinical medicine manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, practice-changing evidence bar, CONSORT/registration requirements, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nejm --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.
# The New England Journal of Medicine (nejm) ## Journal positioning The New England Journal of Medicine, published by the Massachusetts Medical Society, is the most widely read and cited general medical journal in the world. It publishes clinical trials, epidemiological studies, and clinical reviews that change or define standard-of-care practice across all of medicine. The NEJM editorial culture is centered on clinical practice impact: a study must be definitive, practice-changing, and broadly relevant to physicians across specialties — not merely statistically significant or methodologically rigorous in the abstract. The readership is the global physician and clinical-researcher community; non-clinicians are a secondary audience. 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 nejm.org. ## When to trigger - The author names NEJM or The New England Journal of Medicine as the target venue. - A randomized controlled trial, definitive epidemiological study, or landmark diagnostic-accuracy study has clear practice-changing implications acro
- 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 nejm skill do?
Use when targeting The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) or deciding whether a clinical medicine manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, practice-changing evidence bar, CONSORT/registration requirements, 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 nejm --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.