worlddev-referee-strategy
Use when anticipating the objections a World Development (WD) manuscript will draw under double-anonymized, multidisciplinary review. Pre-empts referee pushback before submission; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill worlddev-referee-strategy --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.
# Referee Strategy (worlddev-referee-strategy) ## When to trigger - Before submitting, to war-game the reports the paper will draw - The paper sits between disciplines and could face one economist and one non-economist referee with incompatible standards - A previous WD or sibling-journal rejection cited objections that were never addressed - The development relevance is implicit and a referee could read the paper as "just an applied estimate" - You need to decide what to fix now vs. what to defend in the response letter ## The WD review reality WD review is **double-anonymized**: at least two independent referees, who cannot see who you are (and you cannot see them). Because WD is multidisciplinary, the referee pool is **heterogeneous in method and standard** — a single paper may be read by an applied economist who wants tighter identification and a development sociologist who wants richer context and reflexivity. The strategic implication: **a WD paper must satisfy more than one evidentiary culture at once.** A paper that is bulletproof to one referee community but illegible or naive to the other is the classic WD split-decision that stalls. Anonymize hard, too — WD's double-blin
- When to trigger
- The WD review reality
- War-gaming the two referee archetypes
- Predictable WD objections and the fix
- Suggesting reviewers (where the portal allows)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the worlddev-referee-strategy skill do?
Use when anticipating the objections a World Development (WD) manuscript will draw under double-anonymized, multidisciplinary review. Pre-empts referee pushback before submission; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill worlddev-referee-strategy --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.