water-research
Use when targeting Water Research (Water Res) or deciding whether a water-science or water-engineering manuscript fits this flagship water 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 water-research --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.
# Water Research (water-research) ## Journal positioning Water Research is an Elsevier journal published in partnership with the International Water Association (IWA), and it is the flagship venue for water science and engineering. Its defining character is depth and rigor across the technical water field: treatment processes, water and wastewater quality, contaminants and their fate, microbiology, reuse, and process engineering. The journal rewards mechanistic insight and methodological rigor that advances how the water community understands or engineers water systems — not minor process optimizations, single-site monitoring, or incremental parameter studies. It expects work to be situated within the global water-engineering literature and to demonstrate a clear advance with practical or fundamental significance. Readership is the international community of environmental engineers, water-quality scientists, microbiologists, and process specialists. 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 Water Research Elsevier site. ## When
- 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 water-research skill do?
Use when targeting Water Research (Water Res) or deciding whether a water-science or water-engineering manuscript fits this flagship water 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 water-research --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.