the-lancet-infectious-diseases
Use when targeting The Lancet Infectious Diseases or deciding whether an infectious diseases manuscript fits this 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-lancet-infectious-diseases --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 Lancet Infectious Diseases (the-lancet-infectious-diseases) ## Journal positioning The Lancet Infectious Diseases is one of the most influential specialty journals in the Lancet family, published by Elsevier. It publishes high-impact clinical, epidemiological, and public-health research across all aspects of infectious diseases—bacterial, viral, parasitic, and fungal infections; antimicrobial resistance; vaccines; outbreak science; and health-systems responses to infectious threats. The journal maintains Lancet family editorial standards: pre-registration, CONSORT compliance, global-health equity framing, and a bias toward findings that change clinical practice, public-health policy, or infectious-disease control at population scale. Research that is methodologically competent but locally contained, descriptive without actionable implications, or focused on a narrow pathogen without broader significance will not meet the bar. 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 Lancet/Elsevier site or submission system. ## When to t
- 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-lancet-infectious-diseases skill do?
Use when targeting The Lancet Infectious Diseases or deciding whether an infectious diseases manuscript fits this 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-lancet-infectious-diseases --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.