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A comprehensive guide and checklist for authors targeting Physical Review Applied (PRApplied). This skill helps evaluate whether a manuscript successfully bridges fundamental physics principles (e.g., quantum, photonics, energy) with concrete technological applications, providing heuristics on scope, evidence standards, and house style for submission.

This skill provides comprehensive guidance on adhering to PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association) style, utilizing the most recent MLA Handbook. It covers the mechanics of academic writing, including creating in-text parenthetical citations, building a Works Cited list from core elements, and correctly formatting quotations, translations, and discursive notes. Essential for final style checks before academic submission.

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.

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.

An expert orchestrator and routing guide for manuscripts submitted to the Population and Development Review (PDR). It helps users determine the appropriate specialization path, whether they are starting an idea, refining the theory, or finalizing the submission. It matches the content's lifecycle stage and article type (e.g., Research Article, Notes & Commentary) to the correct development pipeline, ensuring the deep connection between population dynamics and societal policy is maintained.

This guide serves as a comprehensive workflow router for authors preparing a high-impact physics Letter for Physical Review Letters (PRL). It does not replace specialized skills but guides users through the entire publication pipeline—from confirming the scientific scope and framing the central claim, to managing methodology, figures, length, and revision responses, ensuring the manuscript meets strict journal standards.

A comprehensive guide for polishing scientific manuscripts intended for high-impact journals like Physical Review Letters (PRL). It teaches how to achieve maximum concision, ensure precise notation, and structure the argument to be highly readable for a broad, non-specialist audience, strictly adhering to APS house style standards.

A comprehensive skill for advanced meta-analysis in psychology, designed to assess the reliability and sources of heterogeneity. It performs moderator/subgroup analyses (meta-regression) to explain effect size variation and runs multiple publication-bias diagnostics (e.g., Funnel plot, Egger's test, p-curve, selection models). Essential for rigorous academic reporting requiring robust evidence and sensitivity checks.

A comprehensive guide detailing the rigorous, theory-specific peer review process for major academic journals. It explains the mechanics of masked peer review, the distinction between Theoretical Articles and Theoretical Notes, and anticipates the deep theoretical objections that reviewers—who are often rival model builders—will raise. Use this before submission or after receiving a decision letter to properly strategize revisions.

This guide helps researchers determine if their academic project is best suited for Quantitative Economics (QE) among top economic journals. It provides a structured fit test, guiding users to sharpen the substantive economic question and confirm that the quantitative method is necessary—not merely decorative—to answer it. It helps situate research by comparing QE against pure theory and method-first outlets.

This router guides authors through the complex publication lifecycle for Quantitative Economics (QE) submissions. It diagnoses current bottlenecks—whether in topic framing, data analysis, contribution clarity, or writing style—and directs the user to the precise specialized skill needed at that stage, ensuring a structured path from initial concept to final submission or rebuttal.

This guide helps authors polish the prose, abstract, and introduction of quantitative economics manuscripts for a general-interest Econometric Society readership. It emphasizes structuring the paper to clearly present both a substantive economic question and a quantitative method. It adheres to QE house rules, requiring findings to be communicated through point estimates with standard errors and confidence sets, rather than relying on statistical asterisks.