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 Journal Of LinguisticsUse when targeting Journal of Linguistics (Cambridge University Press, for the Linguistics Association of Great Britain) or deciding whether a general theoretical-linguistics manuscript fits this framework-neutral venue. Encodes the journal's broad fit, the argument-and-data bar, framework-neutrality, house style, glossing and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Jqte Literature ReviewUse when building the literature review for a 《数量经济技术经济研究》 (JQTE) manuscript — organizing it around the method lineage (how a quantity has been measured / a series forecast / a structure decomposed) and the China-data application gap, rather than a chronological pile of recent empirical citations. Use after the topic and contribution type are set.
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thedixitjain Skill Jwe Policy ImplicationUse when writing the policy-implication section of a 《世界经济》 (The Journal of World Economy) manuscript — pitching at the opening-up policy level (trade, exchange rate, capital account, industrial opening) rather than as a domestic operational to-do list. Use after results, channels, and heterogeneity are settled.
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thedixitjain Skill Latex Paper ConversionThis skill should be used when the user asks to convert an academic paper in LaTeX from one format (e.g., Springer, IPOL) to another format (e.g., MDPI, IEEE, Nature). It automates extraction, injection, fixing formatting, and compiling.
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thedixitjain Skill Mobicom Review ProcessUse when reasoning about where a MobiCom paper sits in the two-round review process — the early-reject cut after round one, the released reviews and rebuttal window after round two, the accept / one-shot revision / reject outcome space, reviewer continuity across a revision, and how the rolling-deadline structure shapes what to do next.
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thedixitjain Skill Mobisys Review ProcessUse when explaining or planning around MobiSys peer review — the two-round process with an early-reject cut after round 1, the round-2 rebuttal window, double-blind HotCRP mechanics, the systems-and-services reviewer pool, and decision criteria for on-device claims, so response strategy fits how MobiSys decides.
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thedixitjain Skill Nature Human BehaviourUse when targeting Nature Human Behaviour (Nat Hum Behav) or deciding whether a human behavioural science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, preregistration culture, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Nature Reviews PhysicsUse when targeting Nature Reviews Physics (Nat Rev Phys) or deciding whether a review proposal across any area of physics fits this commissioned, authoritative review venue that publishes no primary research. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill New Journal Of PhysicsUse when targeting New Journal of Physics (NJP) or deciding whether a broad-physics manuscript fits this open-access IOP/DPG 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 Nucleic Acids ResearchUse when targeting Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) or deciding whether a nucleic-acid biology, database, or web-server 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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nwave-ai Skill Nw Source VerificationSource reputation tiers, cross-referencing methodology, bias detection, and citation format requirements
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thedixitjain Skill Oopsla ReproducibilityUse when hardening an OOPSLA paper's empirical claims to the SIGPLAN Empirical Evaluation Guidelines — managed-runtime measurement discipline, warmup and variance reporting, corpus and benchmark provenance, environment pinning, and a Data-Availability Statement that the eventual artifact can actually honor.
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thedixitjain Skill Orgsci Topic SelectionUse when choosing or sharpening a research question for an Organization Science manuscript — testing whether it is a theory-driven question about organizations spanning micro to macro, and whether Organization Science (rather than ASQ, AMJ, Management Science, or a field journal) is the right venue.
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thedixitjain Skill Percom Author ResponseUse when drafting an IEEE PerCom rebuttal after being invited following the initial reviews, covering the bounded single-round reply that answers explicit reviewer questions, corrects misreadings, points to evidence already in the paper without promising new experiments, and preserves double-blindness.
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othmanadi Bundle Pi Planning With FilesImplements Manus-style file-based planning to organize and track progress on complex tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Use when asked to plan out, break down, or organize a multi-step project, research task, or any work requiring 5+ tool calls. Supports automatic session recovery after /clear.
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thedixitjain Skill Pnasnexus SignificanceUse to write the PNAS Nexus Significance Statement — between 50 and 120 words, in plain language for a broad scientific audience, explaining why the work matters. Required for Research Reports and Stage 2 Registered Reports. Distinct from the abstract. One of the highest-value PNAS Nexus front-matter artifacts.
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thedixitjain Skill Popdevr Review ProcessUse when you need to understand how Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) evaluates a manuscript — an editorial-committee screen before external review, double-anonymized peer review by at least two referees, and a typical ~3-month time to first decision. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.
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thedixitjain Skill Ppsych Editor StrategyUse when working with the Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) editor and editorial team — proposal-stage scope, what review referees of a perspective evaluate, suggesting reviewers, and the author–editor relationship. Plans the interaction; it does not run the submission preflight (ppsych-submission) or draft the response letter (ppsych-revision).
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thedixitjain Skill Ppsych Topic SelectionUse when judging whether a question is a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS)-scale contribution — broad, integrative, theoretical, or meta-scientific rather than a single study — and framing its animating question. Decides fit and venue; it does not gather the literature (ppsych-literature-synthesis) or shape the proposal (ppsych-proposal-and-commissioning).
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thedixitjain Skill Quantitative EconomicsUse when targeting Quantitative Economics (QE) or deciding whether a structural / quantitative 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 Sensys ReproducibilityUse when making a SenSys result reproducible across a different testbed — capturing energy-measurement method, hardware and firmware provenance, sensor ground-truth protocol, and deployment conditions while the testbed is still live, and deciding early which traces and firmware can legally and safely ship.
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thedixitjain Skill Sigcomm Review ProcessUse when explaining or planning around ACM SIGCOMM peer review — double-blind HotCRP reviewing, the early-reject cut for consensus rejections, the rebuttal for discussion-phase papers, the shepherd-run one-shot revision that ends in accept or reject only, shepherding of accepted papers, and how the outcome space shapes author strategy.
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thedixitjain Skill Smj Theory DevelopmentUse when building the theoretical mechanism and hypotheses for a Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) manuscript. Constructs the argument and develops hypotheses; it does not position the literature or run estimation.
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thedixitjain Skill Socs Abstract KeywordsUse to write the abstract and keywords for 《社会学研究》 (Sociological Studies) per the journal's norms — Chinese abstract ≤ 200 characters, 3–5 Chinese keywords, English abstract ≤ 150 words, leading with the sociological problematic and the mechanism/concept rather than background. Facts from resources/journal-profile.md.
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thedixitjain Skill World Economic StudiesUse when targeting 《世界经济研究》(World Economic Studies — 上海社会科学院世界经济研究所主办、上海世界经济学会协办的月刊, 1982 创刊, CSSCI) or deciding whether an international-economics/open-strategy manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, house style, official re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Ylj Placement StrategyUse when planning where and when to submit a law-review piece and how to handle an expedite, with The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) as a target. It covers multi-submission timing, season strategy, and YLJ's specific expedite rules; it does not run the final upload preflight (ylj-submission).
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thedixitjain Skill Worlddev Replication PackageUse when preparing the data/code or qualitative-transparency materials for a World Development (WD) manuscript under Elsevier's research-data policy and double-anonymized review. Assembles the package; it does not invent evidence or citations.
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thedixitjain Skill Rof Contribution FramingUse when the marginal contribution of a Review of Finance (RoF) manuscript to the finance literature is fuzzy or undersold — turning a result into a defensible "what we now know that we did not" claim that a top-three-standard referee will accept.
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thedixitjain Skill Jel Classification SystemUse when assigning JEL classification codes to a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey and relating the survey to the JEL code taxonomy that the journal itself maintains. Explains and applies the codes correctly; it does not write prose (jel-writing-style) or run the submission preflight (jel-submission).
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thedixitjain Skill Advances In MathematicsUse when targeting Advances in Mathematics (Adv. Math.) or deciding whether a pure mathematics manuscript fits this broad-scope Elsevier research venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, proof standard, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Aejmac Referee StrategyUse when anticipating the objections referees and coeditors will raise on an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript, and calibrating desk-reject and revision odds, before submission. Pre-empts pushback and plans the review; it does not draft the post-decision response letter (use aejmac-rebuttal).
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thedixitjain Skill Aistats ReproducibilityUse when strengthening AISTATS reproducibility evidence, including the official reproducibility checklist, statistical assumptions, proofs, datasets, hyperparameters, random seeds, compute, uncertainty estimates, baselines, code/data release statements, and checklist-to-claim consistency audits.
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thedixitjain Skill Amanthro Review ProcessUse when you need to understand how American Anthropologist (AA) evaluates a manuscript — editorial screening, anonymous peer review under an ethics of care, the four-field editorial board, decision categories, and how section choice shapes the path. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.
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thedixitjain Skill Artbull Topic SelectionUse when deciding whether an art-history project fits The Art Bulletin and how to frame its contribution. The Art Bulletin is the discipline's leading generalist journal across all periods and regions, so the test is a significant art-historical contribution, not a local description. Helps frame the question; it does not do the research.
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thedixitjain Skill Commres Research DesignUse when defending the research design of a Communication Research (CR) manuscript — experiments (lab/online), panel surveys, and content analysis with intercoder reliability. CR is quantitative and demanding about identification, measurement, and confound control. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
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thedixitjain Skill Commres Theory BuildingUse when building the theoretical argument and hypotheses of a Communication Research (CR) manuscript into a testable, mechanism-level contribution. CR rewards explicit constructs, a stated communication process, and numbered hypotheses with mediation/moderation, not a bare effect. Structures the argument; it does not run analyses.
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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 nature-human-behaviour, journal-of-linguistics, jqte-literature-review. 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.