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This skill provides a rigorous framework for political scientists to pre-test their research projects against the standards of the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS). It evaluates whether a topic has a sharp, generalizable question, demonstrates strong causal identification, provides a substantive theoretical contribution, and fits the appropriate submission type (Article, Research Note, Correspondence). Use this before committing significant time to writing.

This skill guides the polishing and refinement of academic manuscripts specifically for submission to the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS). It ensures the paper adheres to strict academic standards, such as APSA or Chicago style, manages stringent word counts (e.g., Abstract <= 150 words, Article <= 10,000 words), and maintains full anonymity for double-blind review. It focuses on tightening the prose, front-loading the core contribution, and optimizing the overall structure without generating new content.

A comprehensive guide for conducting rigorous academic literature reviews. It teaches authors how to critically appraise and synthesize conflicting empirical evidence by weighing findings based on credibility, study design, and contextual differences. The framework ensures balance, maintains objectivity, and elevates the quality of academic scholarship.

A comprehensive guide for authors addressing revise-and-resubmit (R&R) decisions for top-tier academic journals like the American Anthropologist. This framework teaches how to structure a diplomatic, point-by-point response that manages reviewer disagreements (especially cross-subfield conflicts), protects the core ethnographic contribution, and maintains ethical standards while guiding the editor toward acceptance.

This guide helps researchers structure their discussion section and manuscript to explicitly articulate the theoretical contribution, moving beyond simple results reporting. It teaches how to identify, claim, and frame various types of theoretical advancements (e.g., new mechanisms, boundaries, or integrating literatures), ensuring the paper meets the high standards of top-tier academic journals like AMJ.

A comprehensive guide for drafting the formal rebuttal and response letter following a journal's revise-and-resubmit (R&R) decision, specifically tailored for AMJ standards. It teaches authors how to structure point-by-point responses to action editors and reviewers, reconcile conflicting demands, and strategically defend or deepen the manuscript's theoretical and methodological contributions while maintaining a professional and collegial tone.

This tool provides comprehensive, late-stage polish for full-manuscript academic prose, specifically tailored for top-tier journals (e.g., AMJ). It focuses on transforming dense, jargon-heavy text into rigorous yet highly readable narratives. Key functions include front-loading the core argument, enforcing active voice, refining structural flow (Introduction to Discussion arc), ensuring consistent terminology, and adhering strictly to required academic house styles and formatting standards. It improves clarity and rhetorical impact without altering the theoretical contribution or data analy...

This comprehensive checklist guides authors submitting theory-only manuscripts to the Academy of Management Review (AMR). It ensures compliance with AOM formatting, rigorous anonymity standards, correct scope definition (must build new theory, no data), and ethical guidelines, minimizing desk rejection risk. It is designed for conceptual, non-empirical work.

This comprehensive skill guides authors through the rigorous submission process for Angewandte Chemie International Edition. It provides detailed criteria covering scientific scope, required novelty, evidentiary standards for claims (mechanistic, physical), structural formatting, and common desk-reject triggers, ensuring manuscripts meet the journal's high academic bar.

A comprehensive guide to the rigorous standards for structuring pure mathematics manuscripts, specifically detailing the proper use of appendices and auxiliary material. It teaches authors how to distinguish between the essential core argument (which must remain in the main text) and supplementary technical results, long computations, or background lemmas (which belong in the appendix). This ensures the main text remains focused while maintaining academic rigor and verifiability for peer review.

This comprehensive guide provides a rigorous methodology for constructing evidence-based tables and figures for academic manuscripts. It instructs authors on how to organize and present evidence—covering qualitative data inventories, experimental cell-means, process models, and archival findings—ensuring every exhibit is self-contained and directly supports the core argument, meeting the stringent standards of top academic publishers.

This guide provides comprehensive strategic advice for authors writing commissioned review articles for the Annual Review of Economics (ARE). It covers essential topics such as scope negotiation with the Editorial Committee, anticipating the rigorous criteria used by expert referees (e.g., completeness, balance, and framework), managing the author-editor relationship, and adhering to strict academic and production deadlines. It ensures the resulting work maintains the highest standards of rigor and scholarly balance.