ngeo-scope-fit
Use when deciding whether an Earth-science result clears Nature Geoscience's broad-interest, cross-disciplinary Earth-system gate, or whether it belongs in a community journal such as JGR, GRL, or Communications Earth & Environment. Diagnoses venue fit; does not write or frame the result.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ngeo-scope-fit --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 Scope Fit (ngeo-scope-fit) ## When to trigger - You suspect the result is solid but may be "regional," "incremental," or "specialist" - You cannot articulate why an oceanographer should read your volcanology paper (or vice versa) - A coauthor asks "Nature Geoscience or JGR?" - The study is model-only, or observation-only, and you are unsure it clears the evidence bar - Before investing in figures and prose, you want a go / no-go on venue ## The two-part gate (both must pass) Nature Geoscience publishes across **all** of the Earth sciences — solid Earth (tectonics, volcanology, geochemistry, deep interior), surface processes and geomorphology, hydrology and the cryosphere, oceanography, atmospheric science and climate (past, present, future), biogeochemistry, and planetary science. The gate ANDs two tests: 1. **A genuine Earth-system advance** — the result changes a quantitative understanding of how the Earth (or another planet) works: a newly identified process, a decisive observational constraint, a mechanism that resolves a standing controversy, a proxy or dataset that reveals a previously hidden signal, or a model result that overturns an expected behavior. 2
- When to trigger
- The two-part gate (both must pass)
- The evidence bar (a Nat. Geosci. distinctive)
- Decision table
- How to stress-test the gate
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ngeo-scope-fit skill do?
Use when deciding whether an Earth-science result clears Nature Geoscience's broad-interest, cross-disciplinary Earth-system gate, or whether it belongs in a community journal such as JGR, GRL, or Communications Earth & Environment. Diagnoses venue fit; does not write or frame the result.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ngeo-scope-fit --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.