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This skill provides a comprehensive, end-to-end workflow guide for academic journal submissions, specifically tailored for Acta Electronica Sinica (AES). It maps the entire publishing journey—from topic selection and research design to submission, review tracking, revision, and final publication—into a structured timeline. It helps authors manage complex decision points, adhere to strict deadlines (like the 6-month response window), and avoid common pitfalls, ensuring a systematic approach to high-stakes scholarly publishing.

This guide provides detailed instructions for structuring the introduction of academic manuscripts, particularly for high-stakes, double-blind review journals. It teaches authors how to frame their research contribution by engaging a live, recognized academic debate, precisely locating the marginal intellectual gap, and strictly maintaining anonymity through third-person self-citation.

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 provides a detailed strategy for responding to a Revise-and-Resubmit (R&R) decision for high-stakes academic journals. It teaches authors how to structure a persuasive cover letter, address conflicting reviewer demands, and reconcile feedback without weakening the paper's core contribution. Focuses on maintaining scholarly rigor and managing editor expectations.

This skill guides the process of elevating specific empirical findings into general, portable theoretical contributions suitable for high-level academic journals. It focuses on structuring the core argument by explicitly defining mechanisms, scope conditions, observable implications, and conceptual stakes, transforming mere results into discipline-level theory.

This skill audits academic literature reviews (like Annual Reviews of Psychology) to ensure they maintain scholarly rigor, balance, and objectivity. It checks for uneven coverage across different labs or theories, ensures evidence is weighted by design strength and replication status (not mere vote-counting), and flags potential self-promotion or bias. Use this when scrutinizing a high-stakes scientific review for academic fairness.

A comprehensive guide for authors revising academic review articles, particularly for high-stakes journals. It teaches structured methods for addressing common referee feedback, such as coverage gaps, balance complaints, structural weaknesses, and accessibility issues. Use this guide to transform critical feedback into a robust, publishable revision plan, ensuring methodological transparency and scholarly rigor.

This skill guides the transformation of visual observations and documentary evidence into a sustained, contestable academic thesis, suitable for high-level scholarly publication. It teaches how to explicitly state a claim (the thesis), define its scholarly stakes, and rigorously warrant every interpretive leap using evidence chains and anticipating counter-readings. Use this when a draft is descriptive but lacks a clear, disputed argument.

This guide provides a tactical framework for drafting high-stakes author responses (rebuttals) to peer reviews in top-tier academic conferences. It details how to triage reviewer comments (factual errors, questions, disputes), structure the argument within strict word limits (e.g., 800 words), and maintain a professional, evidence-based tone to maximize the paper's chances of acceptance or major revision.

This master preflight checklist guides authors through every necessary detail before submitting a high-impact manuscript. It covers complex academic requirements, including narrative structure, figures integrity, data transparency (DOIs, accession numbers), required metadata (CRediT, Lead Contact), and high-stakes cover letter strategy, ensuring the work is both scientifically sound and submission-ready.

This guide details the stringent requirements for writing high-stakes scientific summaries, such as those required by top-tier journals. It teaches how to condense complex research into a single, unstructured, quantitative paragraph (≤ 150 words) that explicitly names the underlying mechanism, answers the 'how,' and conveys broad significance to a general life-science readership. Focuses on structure, clarity, and impact.

This skill guides the transformation of preliminary observations into high-stakes, original academic interventions. It helps users sharpen the central thesis of critical essays, defining the argument's scope, identifying the profound 'so what?' for the discipline, and ensuring the claim is bold, transformative, and defensible through evidence and theory.