Skill UI

A comprehensive guide for authors submitting academic papers to the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST). This resource helps determine conference fit, frame the research contribution, and outlines the specific evidence (software, performance, immersive systems) required to meet the stringent standards of top-tier immersive computing venues.

A comprehensive guide for authors targeting the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR). It details the strategic framing, required evidence (e.g., measured immersive user experience), proper positioning, and necessary structural adjustments to ensure a computer science manuscript is highly relevant and competitive for this specialized venue.

This guide assists researchers in validating if their proposed topic aligns with the scope of the Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics (JCAD&CG). It systematically checks the core contribution, focusing on graphics, geometry, visualization, VR/AR, and CAD/CAE techniques, helping authors ensure sufficient technical increment and preventing rejection due to scope mismatch.

This skill guides the execution and reporting standards for advanced demographic analysis, particularly for Population and Development Reviews (PDR). It ensures that demographic rates, life tables, and projections are not only statistically rigorous (handling uncertainty, denominators, and complex inference) but also clearly interpreted in the context of development, policy, and socio-economic meaning. It focuses on reproducibility and methodological transparency.

A comprehensive guide for positioning manuscripts at the intersection of demography, population science, and global development policy. It helps authors structure their contribution to engage both population experts and policy scholars, ensuring the work reads as a broad-interest, synthetic contribution rather than a niche academic estimate.

A comprehensive guide for authors submitting revised manuscripts, specifically addressing the complex requirements of Population and Development Reviews (PDR). Learn how to structure a rebuttal that satisfies cross-field experts (demographers and policy scholars), reconcile conflicting comments, protect the core scientific contribution, and write a cohesive, persuasive cover letter to the editor.

This skill guides the rigorous defense of research design for demographic studies, particularly those linking population dynamics to development outcomes. It assists in selecting and justifying appropriate methods—such as life tables, decomposition, event-history modeling, and age-period-cohort analysis—and critically addresses the identification of causal links between population structure and development progress. It focuses on strengthening the argument by confronting rival hypotheses and establishing methodological rigor, without writing code.

This comprehensive guide details the multi-stage review process for submitting manuscripts to the Population and Development Review (PDR). It covers the initial editorial screening, double-anonymized peer review by experts, and key criteria for acceptance. Use this resource to stress-test your paper, anticipate potential failure modes, and structure your work for maximum scholarly impact before submission.

A comprehensive checklist for authors preparing manuscripts for academic journal submission via platforms like ScholarOne Manuscripts. It guides users through essential compliance checks, including maintaining double-anonymity, adhering to free format requirements, and ensuring all required metadata (ORCID, data availability statement) is included, helping authors prevent common rejection reasons before actual submission.

Provides comprehensive guidelines for constructing self-contained, highly legible tables and figures for population and development research manuscripts. It emphasizes that exhibits must communicate not only raw demographic patterns but also their broader development and policy significance to a wide, non-specialist readership (e.g., economists, environmental scholars). Key principles include showing uncertainty, using appropriate specialized graphics (e.g., population pyramids, survival curves), and maintaining data reproducibility.

This skill guides users on elevating empirical findings (raw correlations) into robust, generalizable, and theoretically grounded arguments suitable for high-impact academic journals. It teaches how to explicitly define mechanisms, scope conditions, and observable implications to transform descriptive work into conceptual, mechanistic contributions.

A comprehensive guide to help researchers pressure-test if their project aligns with the scope of Population and Development Review (PDR). It teaches how to frame research by connecting demographic processes (e.g., fertility, aging) to broader social, economic, or environmental development issues, ensuring the contribution has broad policy interest beyond narrow estimation.