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 Commres Topic SelectionUse when deciding whether a communication project fits Communication Research (CR) and is shaped as quantitative, theory-testing social science. CR rewards a clear communication-science question with a testable mechanism, not platform novelty or description. Helps frame the question; it does not collect data.
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thedixitjain Skill Environmental PollutionUse when targeting Environmental Pollution or deciding whether a contamination/pollutant-impact manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the source-fate-impact evidence bar, measurement-and-controls expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Eurosys ReproducibilityUse when hardening the reproducibility story of a EuroSys paper — recording hardware and software provenance for every number, taming performance variance with repeated runs and dispersion reporting, versioning workloads and traces, and writing an availability statement that survives both double-blind review and the sysartifacts AEC.
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thedixitjain Skill Fda Food Safety AuditorExpert AI auditor for FDA Food Safety (FSMA), HACCP, and PCQI compliance. Reviews food facility records and preventive controls.
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thedixitjain Skill Infocom ReproducibilityUse when strengthening IEEE INFOCOM reproducibility even though the venue runs no formal artifact-evaluation track, covering pinned simulator setups, released code and datasets where possible, complete proofs and parameters within the page budget, IEEE reproducibility-badge options, and consistency between what the paper claims and what a reader could rebuild.
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thedixitjain Skill Jaar Citation And StyleUse when formatting citations and references for a Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) article. JAAR's distinctive rule is IN-TEXT author-date citations (NOT footnote citations) with an alphabetized year-keyed reference list; footnotes are reserved for substantive points. Handles reference apparatus; it does not write the argument.
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thedixitjain Skill Jais Theory DevelopmentUse when building the theoretical engine of a Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) manuscript — original theory for the Theory category, a behavioral mechanism, an economic mechanism, a design theory, or a pre-theoretical framing for a novel digital phenomenon. Adapts the form of "theory" to the category and tradition; it does not run the analysis (jais-data-analysis) or frame the contribution (jais-contribution-framing).
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thedixitjain Skill Jedpsych Review ProcessUse when you need to understand how the Journal of Educational Psychology evaluates a manuscript — masked peer review, editorial weighting of educational relevance, theory, design rigor (nesting/power), and transparency, desk-reject patterns, and the role of preregistration and JARS. Use when stress-testing a paper before submission or interpreting a decision letter. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.
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thedixitjain Skill Journal Of EconometricsUse when targeting Journal of Econometrics or deciding whether a theoretical or applied econometrics 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 Jwe Topic InternationalUse to sharpen a 《世界经济》 (The Journal of World Economy) topic into a causal question seen through an international / open-economy lens — turning a vague "global" angle into a well-posed open-economy treatment-effect or general-equilibrium question. Use after fit is confirmed, before the literature review.
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thedixitjain Skill Mind Citation And StyleUse when formatting references and applying the MIND house style to a Mind article. Mind provides a MIND Stylesheet and requires accepted papers to be prepared in its house style; line numbering is required for review. Handles citation mechanics and formatting; it does not write the argument.
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thedixitjain Skill Misq Theory DevelopmentUse when building the theoretical engine of a MIS Quarterly manuscript — a behavioral mechanism and hypotheses, a design theory and testable design propositions for a design-science artifact, an economic mechanism for an economics-of-IS study, or an organizational process theory. Adapts the form of "theory" to the paper's IS tradition; does not run the analysis (misq-data-analysis) or frame the contribution (misq-contribution-framing).
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thedixitjain Skill Mobicom ReproducibilityUse when making a MobiCom result reproducible on a different testbed — recording radio, hardware, channel, and mobility provenance as the runs happen, characterizing the variance that over-the-air measurement introduces, and deciding early which traces, firmware, and deployment data can legally and safely ship for artifact evaluation.
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thedixitjain Skill Modern Economic ScienceUse when targeting 《当代经济科学》(Modern Economic Science — 教育部主管、西安交通大学主办的综合性经济学双月刊, 1979 年创刊, 双向匿名审稿、不收版面费) or deciding whether a Chinese econ/finance manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, anonymous-review/fee-free policy, abstract/keyword house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Nankai Economic StudiesUse when targeting 《南开经济研究》(Nankai Economic Studies — 南开大学经济学院主办的综合性经济学双月刊, 1985 年创刊, CSSCI/北大核心, 不收版面费/审稿费) 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 National Science ReviewUse when targeting National Science Review (NSR) or deciding whether a multidisciplinary manuscript fits China's flagship broad-science journal (OUP/CAS). 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 Neurips ReproducibilityUse when strengthening NeurIPS reproducibility evidence, aligning Paper Checklist answers with the paper, writing code/data instructions, setting random-seed and compute disclosure, or deciding whether the MLRC/TMLR reproducibility route fits better than the main track or Datasets & Benchmarks track.
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thedixitjain Skill Neurips Topic SelectionUse when deciding whether a paper belongs at NeurIPS, choosing main-track versus another NeurIPS track, selecting contribution type, or rerouting to a better AI/ML venue.
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nwave-ai Skill Nw Po Review DimensionsRequirements quality critique dimensions for peer review - confirmation bias detection, completeness validation, clarity checks, testability assessment, and priority validation
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nwave-ai Skill Nw Research MethodologyResearch output templates, distillation workflow, and quality standards for evidence-driven research
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nwave-ai Skill Nw Sc Review DimensionsReviewer critique dimensions for peer review - implementation bias detection, test quality validation, completeness checks, and priority validation
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thedixitjain Skill Physical Review AppliedUse when targeting Physical Review Applied (PRApplied) or deciding whether an applied-physics manuscript bridging fundamental physics and devices, quantum technology, photonics, energy, or sensing fits this APS 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 Physical Review LettersUse when targeting Physical Review Letters (PRL) or deciding whether a physics manuscript fits this Letter-format, broad-importance 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 Pmla Citation And StyleUse when formatting a PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association) essay in MLA style — in-text parenthetical citations keyed to a Works Cited list built from the MLA Handbook's template of core elements, plus quotation, translation, and discursive-note conventions. PMLA requires the most recent MLA Handbook. Handles citation mechanics; it does not write the argument.
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thedixitjain Skill Psychrev Review ProcessUse when anticipating how a Psychological Review manuscript will be evaluated — masked peer review, the kinds of decisions, article types (full article vs. Theoretical Note), and what reviewers at a theory journal actually probe. Explains the process; it does NOT write the response document (that is psychrev-rebuttal) or run the submission preflight (psychrev-submission).
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thedixitjain Skill Public Finance ResearchUse when targeting 《财政研究》(Public Finance Research — 财政部主管、中国财政学会主办、不收版面费的财政学权威核心月刊, CNKI 采编系统) or deciding whether a Chinese public-finance manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, abstract/keyword/citation house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Restud Referee StrategyUse when anticipating the referee pool and their likely objections for a The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript, and when pre-empting those objections in the paper before submission. Maps reviewers and hardens the paper against them; does not write the rebuttal (that is restud-rebuttal).
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thedixitjain Skill Revedres Tables FiguresUse when designing the PRISMA flow diagram, forest/funnel plots, and coding/evidence tables for a Review of Educational Research (RER) review or meta-analysis. Builds exhibits that carry the synthesis; it does not run the analyses (revedres-comprehensiveness-and-balance) or settle reproducibility of the underlying data (revedres-transparency-and-reproducibility).
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brycewang-stanford Skill Rt Submission ReadinessUse when an author is one revision away from submission and needs a venue-parameterized go/no-go scorecard on the actual manuscript: fit, identification, robustness, exhibits, exposition, venue mechanics, data/code, and pre-empted objections. Returns PASS/FLAG/FAIL per dimension, the blocking gaps, and the desk-reject risk. Reads the venue bar from the target pack + source-map.
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thedixitjain Skill Sigcomm ReproducibilityUse when strengthening the reproducibility evidence of an ACM SIGCOMM paper — topology and testbed ledgers, traffic workload and trace provenance, configuration and version pinning, tail-percentile run counts and variance, legal data-release decisions, and consistency between the paper's claims and the artifact that backs them.
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thedixitjain Skill Sigmetrics Camera ReadyUse when preparing an accepted ACM SIGMETRICS paper for its POMACS camera-ready, covering de-anonymization, the acmsmall template and POMACS journal metadata (DOI, ORCID, CCS concepts), incorporating the shepherd's required changes without scope creep, permanentizing artifact links, and the ACM artifact-badge handoff.
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thedixitjain Skill Smr Method ContributionUse when sharpening the core methodological claim of a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) paper — the new estimator/design/diagnostic and exactly what it fixes versus existing methods. Frames and bounds the contribution; does not derive its properties or run simulations.
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thedixitjain Skill The Burlington MagazineUse when targeting The Burlington Magazine or deciding whether a connoisseurship, attribution, or object-based art-history manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit as the leading venue for connoisseurship, attribution, provenance, and museum/exhibition scholarship, the evidentiary bar for object-based claims, primary-source command, house style, image-rights expectations, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill The Classical QuarterlyUse when targeting The Classical Quarterly (CQ) or deciding whether a Greek or Latin philology, textual-criticism, or literary-interpretation manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's classical-philology fit, the textual-command argument bar, original-language and critical expectations, classics house style and anonymization norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill The Journal Of ReligionUse when targeting The Journal of Religion or deciding whether a religious-studies manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, its argument/evidence bar, textual/comparative and constructive-analytic expectations, house style and review norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Webconf Topic SelectionUse when deciding whether a project belongs at the Web Conference (WWW) at all, which of the ten research tracks should review it, whether the short-paper or Web4Good lane fits better, and when the work should instead route to WSDM, SIGIR, CIKM, KDD, ICWSM, WebSci, or an ML flagship.
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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 nw-sc-review-dimensions, commres-topic-selection, eurosys-reproducibility. 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.