the-lancet-psychiatry
Use when targeting The Lancet Psychiatry or deciding whether a psychiatry or mental-health study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the clinical-trial, population, and policy evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, Lancet specialty 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 the-lancet-psychiatry --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 Psychiatry (the-lancet-psychiatry) ## Journal positioning The Lancet Psychiatry is a Lancet specialty journal for high-impact clinical and population research across psychiatry and mental health — mood, anxiety, psychotic, and neurodevelopmental disorders, substance use, child and adolescent and old-age psychiatry, and the mental-health consequences of physical illness and social adversity. It favors **practice- or policy-changing randomized trials, large cohorts, and population/epidemiological analyses with global reach and mental-health-systems relevance**, with a strong emphasis on rigorous design, patient-important outcomes, and attention to stigma, equity, and lived experience. Small single-site studies, mechanistic neuroscience without a clinical or population endpoint, and underpowered intervention pilots are a weak fit and belong in a specialist psychiatry or neuroscience venue. 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 The Lancet Psychiatry author instructions. ## When to trigger - The author names
- 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-psychiatry skill do?
Use when targeting The Lancet Psychiatry or deciding whether a psychiatry or mental-health study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the clinical-trial, population, and policy evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, Lancet specialty 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 the-lancet-psychiatry --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.