stroke
Use when targeting Stroke or deciding whether a cerebrovascular-disease study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the clinical/translational/basic cerebrovascular evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, AHA/ASA house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill stroke --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.
# Stroke (stroke) ## Journal positioning Stroke is the flagship cerebrovascular journal of the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA), publishing clinical, translational, and basic research focused specifically on cerebrovascular disease — ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral small-vessel disease, prevention, acute treatment (thrombolysis, thrombectomy), recovery and rehabilitation, and the vascular biology and neurovascular mechanisms behind them. It serves vascular neurologists, neurointerventionalists, neurosurgeons, and cerebrovascular scientists, and expects cerebrovascular-specific work that advances prevention, acute care, recovery, or mechanism; general neurology without a clear cerebrovascular focus, and underpowered single-center series with no practice or mechanistic advance, are a weak fit. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** aid; it is not clinical or regulatory advice and does not replace the journal's current instructions for authors. Before submitting, re-check the live Stroke author instructions. ## When to trigger - The author names Stroke for a cerebrovascular clinical, translational, or
- 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 stroke skill do?
Use when targeting Stroke or deciding whether a cerebrovascular-disease study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the clinical/translational/basic cerebrovascular evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, AHA/ASA house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill stroke --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.