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 Artbull Review ProcessUse to understand how The Art Bulletin evaluates a submission — double-blind peer review, what referees and the editor look for in art-historical work, and the likely decision outcomes. Helps anticipate review; it does not contact editors or simulate a specific referee.
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thedixitjain Skill Asplos ReproducibilityUse when hardening an ASPLOS paper's results for independent repetition — pinning simulator versions and configs, recording kernel/firmware/BIOS state, packaging FPGA bitstreams and RTL, documenting hardware dependencies an evaluator may lack, and writing availability statements that match what the ACM badges will later require.
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thedixitjain Skill Asq Theory DevelopmentUse when building the theoretical engine for an Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) manuscript — mechanisms, process vs. variance logic, constructs, and boundary conditions. Builds the argument; it does not select methods or run analysis.
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thedixitjain Skill China Economic StudiesUse when targeting 《中国经济问题》(China Economic Studies — 厦门大学主办的经济学双月刊, 不收版面费) or deciding whether a Chinese econ manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, abstract/keyword house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Commres Review ProcessUse to understand how Communication Research (CR) evaluates a manuscript — double-anonymized review, editorial screening for quantitative/theory fit, external review, and the requirement that two independent positive reviews back a Revise or Accept decision. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.
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thedixitjain Skill Commres Tables FiguresUse when building tables and figures for a Communication Research (CR) manuscript so exhibits are self-contained, accessible, and formatted to APA. CR is quantitative, so exhibits must show effect sizes and uncertainty, not just stars. Designs exhibits; it does not run the analysis.
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thedixitjain Skill Comparative LiteratureUse when targeting Comparative Literature or deciding whether a cross-national, cross-linguistic, translation, or world-literature manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's comparatist fit, the cross-linguistic argument bar, original-language and translation expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Conext ReproducibilityUse when building the reproducibility story for an ACM CoNEXT paper — pinned traces and configs, a runnable artifact, an honest data-availability posture, and the one-page artifact description the CoNEXT reproducibility committee needs — remembering that the ACM badge opt-in is due before the submission deadline.
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thedixitjain Skill Conext Topic SelectionUse when deciding whether a networking project belongs at ACM CoNEXT or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, IMC, SIGMETRICS, MobiCom, or HotNets, and when using CoNEXT's two-cycles-per-year calendar and PACMNET journal-style fit to choose the venue and the cycle by contribution shape and evidence maturity.
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thedixitjain Skill Cpa Policy ImplicationUse when drafting or strengthening the policy-implications section of a 《中国行政管理》 manuscript. Frames implications as actionable for government practice but firmly grounded in the paper's own analysis — not the empty four-verb filler. 本技能服务于《中国行政管理》(Chinese Public Administration, CPA)。
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thedixitjain Skill Critical Care MedicineUse when targeting Critical Care Medicine or deciding whether an intensive/critical-care study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's ICU-focused fit, the clinical-evidence and translational bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, SCCM house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.
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thedixitjain Skill Efficient Web Research> Protocol for token-efficient web research. Use when accessing URLs, GitHub repos, or running search queries. Prevents full-page fetching waste.
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thedixitjain Skill European Heart JournalUse when targeting European Heart Journal (EHJ) or deciding whether a cardiovascular manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Experimental EconomicsUse when targeting Experimental Economics or deciding whether a lab- or field-experiment manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Fcr Figures And TablesUse when building tables and figures for a Field Crops Research (FCR) manuscript so exhibits are self-contained, quantitatively complete, and agronomically informative — yield and response curves, AMMI/GGE biplots, observed-vs-simulated plots, and weather-vs-phenology series. FCR exhibits must show units, error (SED/LSD), and sample structure. Designs exhibits; it does not run the analysis.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Govern Research DesignUse when defending the research design of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript — comparative/causal designs for governance & institutions, qualitative & comparative-historical case logic, mixed methods, and the measurement of governance/institutions. Governance judges each tradition on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Govern Theory BuildingUse when building the argument and theoretical contribution of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript — to theories of the state, institutions, the policy process, bureaucracy, governance networks, and accountability, with portability across cases and disciplined concept formation. Builds the argument; it does not test it.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Govern Topic SelectionUse when deciding whether a project fits Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions and how to frame it. The test is comparative/institutional significance for how the state governs — not single-country administrative novelty. Helps frame the question; it does not collect data.
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thedixitjain Skill Ieeesp ReproducibilityUse when hardening the reproducibility of an IEEE S&P (Oakland) paper's evidence before submission, including environment pinning for exploits and side channels, seed and trial reporting for probabilistic attacks, measurement snapshotting of live systems, and honest availability statements under ethical release limits.
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thedixitjain Skill Imfer Referee StrategyUse when anticipating the objections a dual academic/policy IMF Economic Review (IMFER) referee will raise, so a manuscript pre-empts them before submission or addresses them in revision. Plans the defense; it does not draft the response letter (imfer-rebuttal) or run the submission preflight (imfer-submission).
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thedixitjain Skill Interspeech SubmissionUse when auditing an INTERSPEECH submission before the CMT deadline — the strict 4-page-plus-references format, double-anonymous rules and the pre-deadline anonymity period, scientific-area and metadata choices, the post-deadline paper-update window, dual-submission policy, and the desk-reject triggers specific to ISCA's flagship.
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thedixitjain Skill Isr Theory DevelopmentUse when building or refining the mechanism for an Information Systems Research (ISR) manuscript — deriving behavioral hypotheses for empirical work or analytical propositions/equilibrium predictions for modeling work, always centered on the IT artifact and the sociotechnical interplay across levels of analysis. Builds the theory; it does not test it (isr-methods, isr-data-analysis).
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thedixitjain Skill Jaar Theory And MethodUse when articulating the theory and method of a Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) article. JAAR prizes method-conscious, reflexive, non-confessional scholarship and explicitly publishes studies of the methodologies by which religion is explored. Sharpens the theoretical/methodological frame; it does not gather sources.
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thedixitjain Skill Jacs Length ManagementUse when choosing between an Article and a Communication and meeting ACS format norms for a Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) manuscript. Decides format and trims to fit — it does not add new results.
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thedixitjain Skill Jae Theory DevelopmentUse when building the economic argument and predictions for a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript — grounding hypotheses in agency, information-economics, contracting, or disclosure theory so the paper applies economic theory to explain accounting phenomena rather than reporting a bare correlation.
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thedixitjain Skill Jama Internal MedicineUse when targeting JAMA Internal Medicine or deciding whether an internal-medicine clinical study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the clinical-evidence and methodological-rigor bar, reporting-guideline and trial-registration requirements, JAMA Network house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.
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thedixitjain Skill Jar Theory DevelopmentUse when building the economic mechanism and deriving signed, falsifiable predictions for a Journal of Accounting Research (JAR) manuscript — grounding hypotheses in information economics, contracting, and disclosure theory rather than psychology-style construct chains. Builds the mechanism; it does not design the empirical test (jar-methods) or run it (jar-data-analysis).
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thedixitjain Skill Jcadcg Author Response在为《计算机辅助设计与图形学学报》(Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics, JCAD&CG) 撰写审稿意见答复(rebuttal)与修回说明时调用。覆盖点对点(point-by-point)逐条答复的组织、大修/小修的不同策略、如何用新增图形证据(渲染对比、几何误差、消融、用户研究)回应质疑、修改处在正文的定位标注、不采纳意见时的礼貌据理说明、以及修回说明信的结构。适用于收到外审意见后把每条意见闭环、准备好经得起复审与主编终审的修回材料的场景。
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thedixitjain Skill Jcadcg Reproducibility在为《计算机辅助设计与图形学学报》(Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics, JCAD&CG) 提升论文可复现性与实验可重复时调用。覆盖图形学/CAD 特有的可复现要点:固定随机种子、记录 GPU/驱动/渲染器版本、锁定网格/点云/纹理/视频数据集、固定渲染与几何管线参数(采样数、光照、相机、分辨率)、复现包冒烟测试、几何误差与渲染质量指标的计算脚本对齐、以及大数据的稳定托管。适用于让外审与读者能重跑出论文表图、避免"结果无法复现"质疑的场景。
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thedixitjain Skill Jcadcg Topic Selection在为《计算机辅助设计与图形学学报》(Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics, JCAD&CG) 选题定位、判断稿件是否落在本刊图形学/CAD 版图、以及在兄弟中文刊之间选择落点时调用。覆盖本刊图像视频处理、可视化与可视分析、CAD/CAE/CAM、VR/AR/MR、三维图形计算与交互等栏目的边界,帮助判断选题的图形/几何增量是否充分、与综合刊《计算机学报》和软件方向《软件学报》如何分工、以及该选研究论文还是综述。适用于动笔前确认选题契合、避免因不符宗旨在初审被退的场景。
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thedixitjain Skill Jcp Theory DevelopmentUse when building the psychological theory and hypotheses for a Journal of Consumer Psychology (JCP) manuscript — naming the mechanism (mediator), deriving theory-predicted moderators, and ruling out rival processes. Builds the mechanism that IS the contribution; it does not run the studies (jcp-methods).
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thedixitjain Skill Jcr Theory DevelopmentUse when building the conceptual core of a Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) manuscript — the psychological process and hypotheses for an experiments paper, or the interpretive theorization for a Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) paper. Builds the mechanism; it does not run the studies (jcr-methods/jcr-data-analysis).
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thedixitjain Skill Jegeo Referee StrategyUse when anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript, where the panel typically pairs an economist with a geographer. Maps likely cross-disciplinary objections to fixes; it does not invent results.
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thedixitjain Skill Jmcb Internet AppendixUse when deciding what belongs in the online appendix vs. the 40-page main text for a Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) manuscript, and how to keep the core self-contained. Organizes the supporting layer and the replication path; it does not generate new analysis or prose.
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thedixitjain Skill Jms Theory DevelopmentUse when the theoretical argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management Studies (JMS) manuscript — building a mechanism and deriving hypotheses a priori, OR abstracting grounded constructs and propositions from qualitative data. Constructs the theory both deductively and inductively; it does not run the analysis (jms-data-analysis) or write the final contribution paragraph (jms-contribution-framing).
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thedixitjain Skill Jom Theory DevelopmentUse when building the theoretical argument and hypotheses for a Journal of Operations Management (JOM) empirical study — deriving operations/behavioral mechanisms a priori, borrowing and adapting reference theory to an OM phenomenon, and specifying mediation/moderation so they are testable against observed operations data.
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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 govern-research-design, govern-theory-building, artbull-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?
Yes. Every skill here ships as a SKILL.md file, an open format that works in Claude Code, Claude.ai, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and 60+ other agents. Install one with npx skillmds@latest add <owner>/<name>, or copy the file into your agent's skills directory.