plos-medicine
Use when targeting PLOS Medicine or deciding whether a medicine or public-health manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill plos-medicine --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.
# PLOS Medicine (plos-medicine) ## Journal positioning PLOS Medicine is an open-access general medical journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS). It focuses on research with direct relevance to clinical practice, public health, and health policy, with a strong commitment to global health equity, transparent reporting, and methodological rigour. PLOS Medicine publishes across the full spectrum of medical research, from randomised trials and systematic reviews to health systems analyses and epidemiological studies, provided the work is clinically or public-health relevant and meets strict reporting standards. The journal explicitly refuses to publish industry-sponsored, ghost-authored, or commercially conflicted manuscripts whose independence cannot be established. 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 the PLOS Medicine site or submission system. ## When to trigger - The author names PLOS Medicine as a target venue, particularly for open-access clinical or public-health research. - A well-executed clinical or epid
- 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 plos-medicine skill do?
Use when targeting PLOS Medicine or deciding whether a medicine or public-health manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, 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 plos-medicine --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.