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A comprehensive guide for authors preparing manuscripts for journals requiring high standards of openness and rigor. It details how to prepare required materials, including data-availability statements, open data/materials deposits, pre-registration plans, and handling restricted data paths, ensuring submitted research is fully reproducible and verifiable.

This skill acts as an academic positioning tool for targeting high-level journals focused on institutional and economic comparison, such as the Comparative Economic and Social Systems journal. It helps users assess if their manuscript possesses the necessary comparative scope, institutional logic, and generalizable theoretical contribution required for acceptance, guiding manuscript reframing and submission strategy.

This comprehensive guide outlines the strict analytical and reporting standards required for top-tier conservation biology manuscripts. It covers everything from selecting appropriate statistical models (e.g., hierarchical, spatial) to honestly quantifying uncertainty, ensuring full reproducibility, and translating complex findings into actionable, decision-relevant conservation insights. Use this skill when performing main analyses or preparing manuscripts for expert peer review.

A comprehensive guide for creating self-contained, accessible, and budget-compliant scientific exhibits (figures, tables, and maps) for manuscripts, particularly in conservation biology. It covers best practices for data visualization, adhering to journal standards, ensuring accessibility (e.g., grayscale compatibility), and masking sensitive geographical data.

A comprehensive guide for preparing data-availability statements, shareable data, and reproducible code for conservation biology manuscripts. It outlines best practices for using persistent identifiers (like Dryad or Zenodo), masking sensitive species locations, and documenting full research provenance to meet journal standards.

This guide provides an in-depth understanding of the peer-review process for Conservation Biology, covering double-blind review standards, editorial screening criteria, and expert review priorities. It teaches authors how to structure their research to explicitly demonstrate conservation relevance, novelty, and transferable implications, effectively stress-testing a manuscript against common desk-rejection grounds.

This guide provides a framework for rigorously defending the methodological design of scientific manuscripts in conservation biology. It covers advanced topics including detection modeling (occupancy, capture-recapture), addressing spatial structure and pseudoreplication, quasi-experimental designs (BACI, difference-in-differences), and systematic review protocols (PRISMA). The goal is to ensure that the evidence presented directly and credibly supports transferable, decision-relevant conservation conclusions.

This skill automatically converts structured data from Excel (.xlsx) workbooks into a clean, readable Markdown format. It is essential for enabling accurate analysis, summarization, and data extraction of spreadsheet contents, especially when the user asks to 'read', 'analyze', or 'compare' data without specifying a conversion method. It supports both single files and batch processing of entire folders.

This skill converts Microsoft Word documents (.docx) into Markdown format. It is essential for accurately analyzing, summarizing, or extracting data from proprietary Word files, as direct parsing is unreliable. It supports single files, batch processing of folders, and is designed to coordinate with sibling skills (PDF and Excel) when handling mixed document types to ensure no data is skipped.

A comprehensive guide for standardizing the presentation of findings in academic manuscripts, particularly for social science and public administration journals. It covers strict formatting rules for quantitative regression tables (three-line style, max 6 columns), variable definition sheets, qualitative data coding tables, and process/mechanism diagrams, ensuring methodological rigor and compliance with high publication standards.

Provides comprehensive guidelines for designing self-contained, comparative, and publication-ready tables and figures for Comparative Political Studies (CPS) manuscripts. It emphasizes transforming raw statistical results into visually compelling exhibits that clearly communicate the cross-case or over-time comparative argument, while adhering to professional journal standards (e.g., grayscale legibility, vector output).

This guide provides a comprehensive methodological framework and checklist for researchers conducting quasi-experimental and micro-panel studies in rural economics. It systematically addresses common econometric pitfalls, such as self-selection bias, reverse causality, and endogeneity, detailing best practices for advanced methods like Difference-in-Differences (DID), Instrumental Variables (IV), Regression Discontinuity (RDD), and Propensity Score Matching (PSM).