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A comprehensive guide for authors submitting revisions to top-tier academic journals, such as AJPS. It details the strategy, structure, and specific constraints required for the response memorandum following a Revise & Resubmit (R&R) decision. The guide emphasizes addressing every reviewer comment, reconciling conflicting demands, maintaining double-blind anonymity, and ensuring all new analyses are fully reproducible for third-party verification.

Provides a detailed guide on the mandatory pre-publication replication and verification process for American Journal of Political Science (AJPS). It instructs authors on building a robust, reproducible package—including code, data, and documentation—that an independent third party can re-run to confirm all numerical findings match the main text before publication.

A comprehensive guide for strengthening the methodological rigor of academic manuscripts, particularly for high-stakes journals. It covers advanced techniques for causal identification (e.g., Difference-in-Differences, Instrumental Variables, Regression Discontinuity), pre-analysis planning, linking theory to empirical tests, and defending claims against skeptical reviewers. This skill focuses on methodological architecture, not code.

This guide details the multi-stage, rigorous review process for the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS). It covers the mechanics of double-blind screening, editorial fit assessment, expert peer review, and the unique, critical post-acceptance third-party verification step. It is designed to help authors anticipate and mitigate potential rejection issues by structuring and refining their manuscripts to meet top-tier academic standards.

A comprehensive final preflight guide for submitting manuscripts to the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) via Editorial Manager. It covers strict requirements for double-blind review, including anonymization rules, word count limits, formatting (APSA/Chicago), Supporting Information caps, and human subjects documentation, ensuring the manuscript is ready before hitting submit.

This guide outlines the stringent standards for creating tables and figures (exhibits) for the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS). It emphasizes that exhibits must be self-contained, highly accessible, and, critically, regenerated exactly by deposited code for third-party verification. It provides best practices for structuring research results, managing word counts by differentiating between core arguments in the main text and supporting details in the Supporting Information (SI).

A comprehensive guide for structuring academic arguments, specifically tailored to the high theoretical standards of top-tier journals like AJPS. It helps researchers transform initial ideas into a rigorous framework, defining core mechanisms, stating directional and testable hypotheses before results, and establishing clear scope conditions for empirical, formal, or methodological papers.

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 authors submitting to the American Journal of Sociology (AJS). It outlines best practices for data documentation, ensuring research provenance, and ethically sharing findings in both quantitative and ethnographic contexts. It emphasizes creating a thorough, checkable evidentiary trail appropriate to the claim, while clarifying AJS's non-mandatory policy on replication deposits and adherence to confidentiality standards.

A comprehensive preflight checklist designed specifically for submitting articles to the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) via Editorial Manager. It covers critical, highly specific steps for double-blind review, including separating the cover page, adhering to the AJS house style (not ASA), ensuring required alt text for figures, crafting the ~150-word abstract, and managing the submission fee. Use this guide before final upload to avoid common rejection errors.

A comprehensive guide for preparing academic exhibits (tables, figures, appendices) for the American Journal of Sociology (AJS). This skill ensures strict compliance with journal house conventions, covering consecutive numbering, lettered appendices, mandatory alt text, and proper post-text placement. It helps authors structure their arguments visually and pass through rigorous peer review and production stages.