science-advances
Use when targeting Science Advances (Sci Adv) or deciding whether a multidisciplinary open-access manuscript fits this AAAS 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 science-advances --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.
# Science Advances (science-advances) ## Journal positioning Science Advances is the AAAS open-access multidisciplinary journal, launched as a sister to Science. It publishes significant advances across the sciences — broader in scope and lower in the significance bar than Science itself, but demanding more than the typical disciplinary society journal. The AAAS family framing means the editorial culture values cross-disciplinary reach, methodological rigor, and clear societal or scientific relevance. Science Advances is the natural destination for solid, important work that falls just below Science's exceptional-significance threshold or for papers where open-access publishing is a mandate. Its breadth across natural science, social science, and engineering makes it unusual among open-access multidisciplinary venues. 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 AAAS / Science Advances site. ## When to trigger - The author names Science Advances as the target venue. - A manuscript has been considered at Science and needs re-routin
- 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 science-advances skill do?
Use when targeting Science Advances (Sci Adv) or deciding whether a multidisciplinary open-access manuscript fits this AAAS 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 science-advances --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.