Research & Search
Research agent skills teach AI agents to gather and synthesize information properly: literature reviews, competitive analysis, web research with citations, and structured summaries. Each SKILL.md encodes a method, not just a prompt, so results stay consistent across runs.
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thedixitjain Skill Ajs Topic SelectionUse when deciding whether a sociology project fits the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) and how to frame it. AJS is the discipline's oldest generalist journal, with a premium on theoretical ambition and dialogue with current sociology; the test is general significance plus a portable theoretical payoff, not subfield novelty alone. Helps frame the question; it does not collect data.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Anmath Cover Letter
Use when drafting the cover note to the editors for an Annals of Mathematics submission — concisely conveying the main result, its significance, scope fit, and any priority/overlap disclosures. Frames the submission; does not write the paper. Verify whether a cover letter is requested on the official submission page.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Apsr Review Process
Use to understand how the American Political Science Review (APSR) evaluates a manuscript — double-anonymous review, desk-rejection screening (remit / ethics / substance), the reject / accept / revise-and-resubmit decision categories, editor discretion, and the Registered Reports route. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Ase Topic Selection
Use when deciding whether a software-engineering project belongs at ASE (IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering) or should be routed to ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ISSTA, a PL venue, or an SE journal, and when distinguishing ASE by its automation-centric contribution shape, its tool/technique emphasis, and its AI4SE/SE4AI scope.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Asq Topic Selection
Use when judging whether a research idea fits Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) and has the *surprising* theoretical insight ASQ demands. Sharpens the puzzle and the contribution claim; it does not design the study or write theory sections.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Atc Reproducibility
Use when building the reproducibility story for an ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) systems paper — pinning testbed and software environments, providing a turnkey path from the artifact to the headline numbers, and preparing an anonymized-but-runnable review package ahead of the Available/Functional/Reproduced badges.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Bjps Review Process
Use to understand how the British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) evaluates a manuscript — double-blind review with at least two referees, the desk screen, decision categories, and what reviewers are asked to weigh. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Car Topic Selection
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — testing fit with CAR's deliberately method-agnostic, all-topic-areas accounting scope and picking the research tradition (archival, experimental, analytical, field, qualitative) that the question demands.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Cav Reproducibility
Use when strengthening CAV (Computer Aided Verification) reproducibility, covering benchmark provenance (SV-COMP/SMT-COMP/HWMCC/VNN-COMP set revisions), pinned tool and baseline versions, resource limits and hardware, seeds for randomized/portfolio solvers, checkable proof witnesses/certificates for soundness claims, and consistency between the paper's tables and the artifact.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Cav Topic Selection
Use when deciding whether a formal-methods project belongs at CAV (Computer Aided Verification) or should be routed to TACAS, FMCAD, VMCAI, LPAR/IJCAR, POPL/PLDI/OOPSLA, or a journal (FMSD/JAR/TOCL), and when choosing the right CAV category — Regular, Short Tool, Short Application, or Industrial Experience & Case Study.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Chi Reproducibility
Use when strengthening research transparency for an ACM CHI paper — protocols, instruments, codebooks, analysis scripts, preregistration, and data availability under human-subjects constraints — so methods survive the ADR-Method screening and others can actually build on the work.
2 - thedixitjain Skill China Rural Economy
Use when targeting 《中国农村经济》(China Rural Economy — 中国社会科学院农村发展研究所主办、CASS 主管的三农经济旗舰月刊, 1985 年创刊, 双向匿名、零审稿/版面费) or deciding whether a Chinese 三农 econ manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, fee-free anonymous-review policy, abstract/keyword/citation house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
2 - thedixitjain Skill China Sport Science
Use when targeting 《体育科学》(China Sport Science) — the China Sport Science Society flagship and top CSSCI sport-science journal (体育学). Apply to sport & exercise science spanning 运动人体科学 (生理/生化/生物力学/运动医学/体质健康), 体育人文社会学 (体育社会学/管理/经济/政策/史哲), 运动训练与竞技体育, 学校体育, 民族传统体育. Supports both natural-science experiments/interventions and social-science survey/qualitative/policy work; demands a real sport-science problem and discipline-appropriate rigor, not generic econometrics or pedagogy borrowed from other fields.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Cie Topic Selection
Use to sharpen a topic for 《中国工业经济》 (China Industrial Economics) — anchoring on a clean China-policy quasi-experiment, firm behavior, industrial organization, or the digital economy, backed by stylized facts and 3–5 marginal contributions. Use before drafting, when the research question or contribution is fuzzy.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Citation Management
Manage citations systematically throughout the research and writing process.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Cjc Author Response
在收到《计算机学报》(Chinese Journal of Computers, CJC) 外审意见、退修通知或多轮修回要求后，撰写审稿意见答复信与修回说明时调用。覆盖本刊三审制下"退修/大修/小修"的定位判断、逐条对应式回复的结构、修改稿差异标注、与主编终审衔接的答复语气、外审专家分歧的处理，以及重新送审情形下如何组织再审材料。适用于把一份计算机全学科中文长文从退修状态推进到录用的多轮沟通场景。
2 - thedixitjain Skill Cjc Reproducibility
在为投向《计算机学报》(Chinese Journal of Computers, CJC) 的实证或系统类长文构建可复现性与实验可重复保障时调用。覆盖实验环境与依赖固定、随机种子与统计稳定性、数据来源与预处理的可追溯记录、基线与超参数的公平呈现、机器学习/数据挖掘研究的数据泄漏与污染防范、复现脚本与论文表图的一一对应，以及在双盲外审下如何组织可核验又不暴露作者身份的复现材料。适用于让计算机全学科中文原创研究经受三审专家对结果可信度的审查。
2 - thedixitjain Skill Cjc Topic Selection
在判断一项计算机研究是否适合投《计算机学报》(Chinese Journal of Computers, CJC)、以及应落到哪个栏目/稿件类型时调用。覆盖本刊作为 CCF A 类计算机学科综合性中文旗舰月刊的定位、与专业子刊(软件学报偏软件/系统、自动化学报偏控制、电子学报偏电子通信、计算机研究与发展、计算机科学)的分工、长文与原创性门槛、论文/技术报告/短文/研究简报/综述的类型选择、以及会议论文期刊扩展版的定位。适用于在投稿前把选题的期刊契合度、创新增量与栏目归属想清楚，避免因不符宗旨在初审被退。
2 - thedixitjain Skill Cjms Tables Figures
Use when preparing tables, figures, formulas and pseudocode exhibits for a 《中国管理科学》 (Chinese Journal of Management Science) manuscript — three-line tables, equation-editor formulas with unified numbering, algorithm boxes, and convergence/sensitivity plots. Formats exhibits; the analysis behind them belongs to earlier skills.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Conext Camera Ready
Use when preparing the camera-ready of an accepted ACM CoNEXT paper for its assigned PACMNET issue — systematically de-anonymizing, completing PACMNET journal metadata and ACM rights/CCS/keywords, permanentizing artifact and DOI links, applying any shepherd-required changes, and passing ACM production checks.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Cpa Topic Selection
Use when a 《中国行政管理》 manuscript is at the topic-selection stage and the public-administration theory frame, the research question, or the venue match are unsettled. Produces the theory-frame checklist and the research-question / contribution template; does not design the empirics.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Cps Research Design
Use when defending the research design of a Comparative Political Studies (CPS) manuscript — cross-national/panel identification, case-based comparison and process tracing, experiments, or multi-method designs. CPS prizes comparative leverage. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Cps Topic Selection
Use when deciding whether a research question fits Comparative Political Studies (CPS) and how to frame its comparative contribution. Tests comparative leverage and travel; it does not design the study or write the paper.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Crim Review Process
Use to understand how Criminology (ASC / Wiley) evaluates a manuscript — blinded/anonymized peer review, editorial screening, the typical reject / major-revision / minor-revision / accept outcomes, and what expert reviewers weigh in this interdisciplinary, theory-forward field. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Csj Author Response
在为《计算机科学》(Computer Science, JSJKX) 撰写审稿意见答复(response letter)与修回说明时调用。本刊是计算机全学科中文综合月刊(CCF 会刊、B 类、T2 级)，单盲审稿、期刊式多轮修回(小修/大修)。技能帮助逐条回应外审与编辑意见、区分小修与大修策略、在正文标注改动位置、礼貌而有据地处理分歧、组织补充实验的呈现，并给出中文答复信的标准结构与模板。适用于收到修回通知后系统化准备答复与修改稿、争取下一轮通过的场景。
2 - thedixitjain Skill Csj Reproducibility
在为《计算机科学》(Computer Science, JSJKX) 提升实验可复现性与可重复性时调用。本刊是计算机全学科中文综合月刊(CCF 会刊、B 类、T2 级)，单盲审稿，未见独立 artifact 徽章制度(待核实)，故复现工作主要服务于让外审专家更快确认方法可信。技能覆盖环境/依赖/随机种子/数据划分固定、数据泄漏与污染防范、复现包结构、外链数据与校验和、可复现性自查清单。适用于让稿件的主结果可被他人从原始数据一键复现、经得起外审追问的场景。
2 - thedixitjain Skill Csj Topic Selection
在为《计算机科学》(Computer Science, JSJKX) 选题定位、判断稿件是否契合本刊时调用。本刊是重庆西南信息有限公司主办、创刊 1974 年的计算机全学科中文综合月刊(CCF 会刊、B 类、T2 级)，覆盖面广、发文量大、专题(专栏)与综述活跃。技能帮助判断选题属于哪个栏目(理论/体系结构/软件/数据库/AI/网络/信息安全/图形多媒体/交叉前沿)、是否对接正在征稿的专题、稿件类型(研究长文/综述/应用)如何选择，以及与《计算机学报》《软件学报》等兄弟刊的分工。适用于动笔前确定选题与投稿定位的场景。
2 - thedixitjain Skill Dac Author Response
Use when handling reviewer feedback for an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript — writing a concise, evidence-first rebuttal IF the cycle runs an author-response period (verify; DAC has historically not), and otherwise converting DAC reviews into a targeted response-to-reviewers when rerouting a rejected paper to ICCAD, DATE, ASP-DAC, or a journal.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Dac Reproducibility
Use when building the reproducibility story for an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript, covering pinned EDA benchmark suites and versions (ISPD, EPFL, ISCAS/ITC, TAU, CircuitNet), open-source flow provenance (OpenROAD, ABC, Yosys), PDK/library and tool-version disclosure, seed/variance reporting for stochastic and ML flows, and the anonymized-then-public repository path — absent a formal DAC artifact-badging track.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Ecai Review Process
Use when reasoning about how an ECAI submission is evaluated — double-blind review, the summary-reject first phase, area chairs / senior PC, the single author-response (rebuttal) window, an accept/reject decision (no journal-style major-revision round), and how ECAI's process and its joint IJCAI-ECAI 2026 form differ from AAAI, IJCAI standalone, and AAMAS.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Ecj Topic Selection
Use when scoping or framing a research question for a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript and you need to test whether it is "EJ-shaped" — a substantial contribution of broad interest to economists at large, full-length or short-paper. Diagnoses fit and frames the contribution; it does not design the empirics.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Ectj Review Process
Use when interpreting or planning around The Econometrics Journal's one-week editorial screen, editor assignment, three-month decision target, resubmission window, conformance rejection, and replication checks.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Ectj Tables Figures
Use when compressing The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) tables, figures, Monte Carlo displays, empirical-application exhibits, theorem summaries, and appendix references under a roughly 20-page printed-paper constraint.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Epsl Review Process
Use when you need to understand how Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) evaluates a manuscript — subject-editor desk screening against the frontier bar, expert review typically drawn from the sub-fields the paper joins, and editor-led decisions. It sets expectations and hardens the paper before submission; it does not contact editors.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Est Topic Selection
Use when deciding whether a problem fits Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) and which article type to target. ES&T rewards demonstrated environmental significance and transformational, direction-setting work over incremental lab results, so this skill pressure-tests the "so what for the environment?" question before you invest. It frames the contribution; it does not run experiments.
2 - thedixitjain Skill Fast Review Process
Use when reasoning about how a USENIX FAST submission is evaluated, covering double-blind program-committee review with outside referees, the author-response (rebuttal) period, the Accept / Accept-with-shepherding / One-shot-Revision / Reject decision set, how a one-shot revision differs from a journal R&R and from OSDI/ATC handling, and where author leverage exists.
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Frequently asked questions
What are Research & Search agent skills?
Research agent skills teach AI agents to gather and synthesize information properly: literature reviews, competitive analysis, web research with citations, and structured summaries. Each SKILL.md encodes a method, not just a prompt, so results stay consistent across runs.
Which Research & Search skills are most installed?
Popular Research & Search skills on SkillMD right now include ajs-topic-selection, anmath-cover-letter, apsr-review-process. Rankings shift as installs change; sort this page by "Most installs" for the live list.
Do Research & Search skills work with Claude Code and Cursor?
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