progress-in-materials-science
Use when targeting Progress in Materials Science or deciding whether a materials-science review fits this venue. Encodes the journal's review-only fit, the comprehensiveness-and-critical-synthesis bar, the scope-and-balance expectations, the often-invited/proposal route, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill progress-in-materials-science --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.
# Progress in Materials Science (progress-in-materials-science) ## Journal positioning Progress in Materials Science is an Elsevier review journal that publishes authoritative, comprehensive, and critical reviews spanning the breadth of materials science and engineering. Its defining product is the **definitive critical review** of an active, important field — a synthesis that maps the state of the art, reconciles conflicting evidence, exposes open problems, and sets a research agenda — not a report of new primary data. The journal rewards breadth of coverage, depth of critical judgment, and balance across competing schools of thought; a narrow mini-review, a literature roundup with no synthesis, or an unsolicited primary-research paper is a misfit. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official author guidelines. Before submitting or proposing, re-check the live Progress in Materials Science Guide for Authors and any proposal process. ## When to trigger - The author has a comprehensive, critical review of a materials field and is weighing Progress in Materials Science as the venue. - A manuscript must be re-framed fr
- 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 progress-in-materials-science skill do?
Use when targeting Progress in Materials Science or deciding whether a materials-science review fits this venue. Encodes the journal's review-only fit, the comprehensiveness-and-critical-synthesis bar, the scope-and-balance expectations, the often-invited/proposal route, 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 progress-in-materials-science --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.