pnasnexus-fit
Use before any writing — as the first gate — to stress-test whether a result fits PNAS Nexus — high-quality, broadly significant, multidisciplinary research across biological/health/medical, physical sciences & engineering, and social & political sciences — and to make the realistic call between PNAS Nexus, flagship PNAS, and a field journal, including the PNAS-to-PNAS-Nexus transfer route.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill pnasnexus-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.
# Scope & Significance Fit (pnasnexus-fit) ## Why this is skill #1 PNAS Nexus is the **gold open-access sibling journal of PNAS**, published by Oxford University Press for the National Academy of Sciences. It publishes **high-quality original research across the biological, medical, physical, social, and political sciences, and engineering and mathematics**, with an explicit mission of **promoting collaboration across diverse fields**. Run this before investing in prose — and use it for the specific, common decision: **"PNAS declined us; should we take the transfer to PNAS Nexus?"** > **Positioning, stated honestly.** The official materials describe PNAS Nexus as a **complementary, broad-scope sibling** to PNAS — differentiated by **wider, cross-disciplinary scope and a broader editorial base** (members of the NAS, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine, plus select nonmembers). They do **not** brand it as a "lower-tier" or "sound-science-only" outlet. Do not tell an author it is "where you settle" — it has a real, broad, quality bar. (See [`../../resources/official-source-map.md`](../../resources/official-source-map.md).) ## When to trigger - Bef
- Why this is skill #1
- When to trigger
- The bar, and how it differs from flagship PNAS
- The PNAS → PNAS Nexus transfer route (a real path in)
- The cross-disciplinary significance test
- Significance ladder (weak → strong)
- Article-type triage (then confirm in pnasnexus-writing)
- Fatal weak-fit triggers
- Output format
- Anti-patterns
What does the pnasnexus-fit skill do?
Use before any writing — as the first gate — to stress-test whether a result fits PNAS Nexus — high-quality, broadly significant, multidisciplinary research across biological/health/medical, physical sciences & engineering, and social & political sciences — and to make the realistic call between PNAS Nexus, flagship PNAS, and a field journal, including the PNAS-to-PNAS-Nexus transfer route.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill pnasnexus-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.