nejm-rebuttal
Use after NEJM reviews arrive — often including a dedicated statistical reviewer and an editor letter — to triage the decision, answer statistical comments rigorously, and draft a point-by-point response that quotes each comment, the response, and the revised manuscript text. Do not run before the main text is actually revised.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nejm-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.
# Response to Reviewers (nejm-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - A decision letter arrives (reject / reject-but-resubmit / major or minor revision). - You have reviewer comments — frequently including a **statistical reviewer** — and need a strategy. - A revision is drafted and you need the point-by-point response letter. ## Step 0: read the editor's letter first The **editor's** framing outranks individual reviewers. Identify: - The decision type and whether a new review round is implied. - Which concerns the editor **emphasizes** (these are load-bearing — address fully). - Any **deal-breaker** the editor names (e.g., "the primary analysis must be ITT", "registration discrepancy must be resolved"). > A "reject but would consider a new submission" is an invitation gated on the deal-breaker. Do not treat it as a flat reject, and do not under-deliver. ## The statistical reviewer is special NEJM commonly assigns a **statistician** whose comments carry decisive weight and require **rigorous statistical responses**, not prose: - Re-run analyses exactly as requested (ITT vs per-protocol, multiplicity adjustment, alternative models, sensitivity analyses) and **show the numbers** with CIs. - I
- When to trigger
- Step 0: read the editor's letter first
- The statistical reviewer is special
- Triage every comment into 4 buckets
- Response-letter format
- Over-claiming and causation watch (NEJM-specific)
- Output format
- Anti-patterns
What does the nejm-rebuttal skill do?
Use after NEJM reviews arrive — often including a dedicated statistical reviewer and an editor letter — to triage the decision, answer statistical comments rigorously, and draft a point-by-point response that quotes each comment, the response, and the revised manuscript text. Do not run before the main text is actually revised.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nejm-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 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.