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This skill assesses the suitability and required rigor of a manuscript for the Molecular Biology and Evolution journal. It provides comprehensive guidelines covering specific scopes (e.g., population genetics, phylogenetics, positive selection), necessary methodological standards (including uncertainty quantification and addressing selection bias), and structural requirements for high-impact submissions in molecular evolution and genomics.

A comprehensive guide for researchers targeting Molecular Ecology. It outlines the journal's scope, emphasizing that molecular methods must serve a clear ecological or evolutionary question, rather than being an end in themselves. It details required analyses (e.g., population genomics, phylogeography, eDNA), methodological rigor, and specific submission guidelines, ensuring the study's biological interpretation is strong and hypothesis-driven.

This guide details best practices for rigorous statistical reporting in clinical trials, following guidelines from top medical journals like NEJM. It emphasizes using confidence intervals (CIs) over bare P-values, defining primary analysis populations (ITT), controlling for multiplicity, and reporting absolute risks (NNT). It helps researchers ensure their findings are statistically robust, transparent, and defensible.

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.

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.

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.

This guide details the strict requirements for data transparency and reproducibility when submitting manuscripts to the Population and Development Review (PDR). It covers creating data availability statements, depositing materials in FAIR repositories, documenting code with versions, and managing restricted data access, ensuring adherence to modern research integrity standards.

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.