new-phytologist
Use when targeting New Phytologist or deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the integrative conceptual-advance and whole-plant/ecosystem-scale bar, evidence and data-deposition expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill new-phytologist --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.
# New Phytologist (new-phytologist) ## Journal positioning New Phytologist, published by the New Phytologist Foundation, is a plant-science journal with a long-standing strength in **plant ecology, physiology, environmental interactions, and symbiosis** — mycorrhizal and other plant–microbe relationships, whole-plant function, and processes that scale from organism to community and ecosystem. Its defining expectation is a **conceptual advance with integrative breadth**: a study that changes how a process is understood by connecting levels of organization, rather than a tightly bounded mechanistic result. A study whose contribution is a single gene-to-function molecular mechanism with no physiological, ecological, or whole-organism reach usually fits a cellular/molecular journal better. 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 New Phytologist author guidance. ## When to trigger - The author names New Phytologist and wants a fit/framing check for an integrative plant-ecology, physiology, or symbiosis paper. - A whole-plant or ecosystem-scale result must be framed as a
- 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 new-phytologist skill do?
Use when targeting New Phytologist or deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the integrative conceptual-advance and whole-plant/ecosystem-scale bar, evidence and data-deposition 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 new-phytologist --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.