the-lancet-neurology
Use when targeting The Lancet Neurology or deciding whether a clinical neurology 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-neurology --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 Neurology (the-lancet-neurology) ## Journal positioning The Lancet Neurology is the leading specialty journal in the Lancet family focused on clinical neurology and neuroscience with clinical relevance, published by Elsevier. It publishes practice-changing neurological trials, major epidemiological studies on neurological disease burden, translational advances directly linked to clinical neurology, and policy analyses for neurological disease control. The editorial culture mirrors the Lancet parent: rigorous trial registration, CONSORT compliance, a global-health and equity lens, and an insistence that findings shift neurological practice or policy at scale. Purely mechanistic neuroscience or animal-model studies without a compelling clinical bridge are out of scope; equally, confirmatory or incremental clinical studies that do not alter existing practice 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 trigger - The author names The Lancet Neuro
- 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-neurology skill do?
Use when targeting The Lancet Neurology or deciding whether a clinical neurology 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-neurology --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.