vis-review-process
Use when reasoning about how an IEEE VIS full-paper submission is evaluated, covering the two-phase review that mirrors IEEE TVCG, the primary/secondary/external (and 2026 student) reviewer roles, the six-area routing through Area Paper Chairs, the conditional-accept second round, and how VIS's journal-integrated process differs from a single accept/reject conference and from CHI/CVPR.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill vis-review-process --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.
# VIS Review Process Model the pipeline before interpreting any single review. IEEE VIS's process is **journal-style** because VIS full papers are **IEEE TVCG articles**, so a first-round outcome is rarely a plain accept or reject — the pivotal decision is a **conditional accept** that sends the paper into a real second round. The most consequential mental shift for authors arriving from a one-shot conference is that VIS gives repairable papers a genuine revise-and-review cycle within the same edition. ## Process model - Submission and review run on **PCS** under the **VGTC** society, with **author-optional double-blind** anonymity following the IEEE TVCG process. - Each paper is routed by its **primary area** to one of the six areas and handled by that area's **Area Paper Chairs**; **Overall Paper Chairs** keep decisions consistent across areas. - Each paper gets **at least three reviewers**: a **primary** and a **secondary** (both program committee members) plus at least one **external** expert. VIS 2026 adds an optional **student reviewer** the primary may invite — a fourth, developmental voice, not a replacement. - Reviewers weigh scientific quality and novelty, potential impac
- Process model
- The two-phase structure (the defining VIS mechanic)
- Reading a first-round decision
- How VIS differs from its siblings
- Who reads you
- Where author leverage actually exists
- Reading a review packet
- Misreadings to avoid
- Output format
What does the vis-review-process skill do?
Use when reasoning about how an IEEE VIS full-paper submission is evaluated, covering the two-phase review that mirrors IEEE TVCG, the primary/secondary/external (and 2026 student) reviewer roles, the six-area routing through Area Paper Chairs, the conditional-accept second round, and how VIS's journal-integrated process differs from a single accept/reject conference and from CHI/CVPR.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill vis-review-process --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 909 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.