the-isme-journal
Use when targeting The ISME Journal (ISME J) or deciding whether a microbial-ecology manuscript fits this flagship community-and-function 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 the-isme-journal --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.
# The ISME Journal (the-isme-journal) ## Journal positioning The ISME Journal is the flagship journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology, now published with Oxford University Press (formerly Springer Nature). Its defining character is mechanism in microbial ecology: it publishes work on how microbial communities are structured, how they function, and how they evolve and interact with their environments, across habitats from soils and oceans to host-associated microbiomes. The journal rewards studies that move beyond cataloguing taxa to explaining ecological and evolutionary processes — community assembly, biogeochemical function, microbial interactions, adaptation — typically integrating multi-omics with experiments, modeling, or ecological theory. Pure surveys, descriptive amplicon snapshots, and applied or engineered-system studies without ecological insight are poor fits. Readership is the microbial ecology community spanning environmental microbiology, microbiome science, biogeochemistry, and microbial evolution. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submittin
- 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 the-isme-journal skill do?
Use when targeting The ISME Journal (ISME J) or deciding whether a microbial-ecology manuscript fits this flagship community-and-function 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 the-isme-journal --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.