ngeo-referee-strategy
Use when choosing suggested and excluded referees for a Nature Geoscience submission and pre-empting the objections Earth-science referees are likely to raise. Plans referee handling; does not write the manuscript or the rebuttal.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ngeo-referee-strategy --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 Geoscience Referee Strategy (ngeo-referee-strategy) ## When to trigger - The Editorial Manager form asks for suggested / excluded reviewers - You want to anticipate the objections a Nature Geoscience referee will raise and address them in advance - A prior manuscript was declined and you are rethinking who reviews it - You are coordinating the cover-letter referee section (see `ngeo-cover-letter`) ## How Nature Geoscience review works (durable shape) An in-house editor first triages on **broad interest and Earth-system importance**; only a minority of submissions are sent out. Those that pass go to referees (commonly two to three) who assess both **technical soundness** and **significance/breadth**. A referee can recommend rejection on **interest grounds even when the work is correct** — so your strategy must defend the science *and* the venue fit. Review is **single-blind by default**, with an **opt-in double-blind** route (choose it at submission and anonymise the manuscript accordingly). Resubmission and appeal routes exist (handled in `ngeo-revision`). ## Choosing suggested referees | Principle | Practice | |------------------------------------|------------------------
- When to trigger
- How Nature Geoscience review works (durable shape)
- Choosing suggested referees
- Choosing excluded referees
- Worked example: a referee slate
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ngeo-referee-strategy skill do?
Use when choosing suggested and excluded referees for a Nature Geoscience submission and pre-empting the objections Earth-science referees are likely to raise. Plans referee handling; does not write the manuscript or the rebuttal.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ngeo-referee-strategy --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.