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 Transparency And DataUse when preparing the transparency, open-science, and reproducibility materials for a Communication Research (CR) manuscript — data-availability statement, deposited data/code/materials, preregistration, and the restricted-data path. Prepares the materials; it does not waive requirements.
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thedixitjain Skill Conference On Learning TheoryUse when targeting Conference on Learning Theory (COLT) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes conference fit, framing, evidence bar, submission-cycle checks, rebuttal posture, and desk-reject risks for learning theory.
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thedixitjain Skill Contemporary Economy Of JapanUse when targeting 《现代日本经济》(Contemporary Economy of Japan — 吉林大学与中华全国日本经济学会联合主办的双月刊, 1982 创刊, CSSCI) or deciding whether a Japan/East-Asia comparative-economics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, 摘要≤300字/关键词5–7/参考文献≥9条顺序编码 house style, official re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Fcr Reporting And Data PolicyUse when preparing the reporting completeness and research-data materials for a Field Crops Research (FCR) manuscript. FCR requires a data-availability statement at submission, full agronomic reporting (cultivar, soil, weather vs. phenology, management, design), declaration of any generative-AI use, and supports data/methods co-submission to Data in Brief / MethodsX. Prepares the materials; it does not waive requirements.
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thedixitjain Skill Financial Regulation ResearchUse when targeting 《金融监管研究》(Financial Regulation Research — 原中国银监会 2012 年创办、不收任何费用的金融监管专业学术月刊) or deciding whether a Chinese finance manuscript fits this regulation-focused venue. Encodes the journal's regulatory fit, framing, abstract/keyword/GB-citation house style, fee-free policy, online-system submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Forest Ecology And ManagementUse when targeting Forest Ecology and Management or deciding whether a forest-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the ecological-evidence-with-management-relevance bar, silviculture and disturbance expectations, Elsevier house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Ieee Visualization ConferenceUse when targeting IEEE Visualization Conference (IEEE VIS) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes conference fit, framing, evidence bar, submission-cycle checks, rebuttal posture, and desk-reject risks for visualization flagship.
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thedixitjain Skill Industrial Economics ResearchUse when targeting 《产业经济研究》(Industrial Economics Research — 江苏省教育厅主管、南京财经大学主办的产业经济专业双月刊, 2002 年创刊, CSSCI) or deciding whether a Chinese industrial-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 International Economic ReviewUse when targeting International Economic Review (IER) or deciding whether a technically rigorous economics manuscript in theory, econometrics, or macro 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 Journal Of Business EconomicsUse when targeting 《商业经济与管理》(Journal of Business Economics — 浙江工商大学主办的"商"字特色学术月刊, 1981 创刊, 双向匿名审稿, 不收费) or deciding whether a Chinese business/management manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, double-blind house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Journal Of Business VenturingUse when targeting Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) or deciding whether an entrepreneurship / new-venture 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 Journal Of Cleaner ProductionUse when targeting the Journal of Cleaner Production or deciding whether a cleaner-production/sustainability manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the cleaner-production contribution and methodological-transparency bar, LCA/system-boundary expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Journal Of Economic GeographyUse when targeting Journal of Economic Geography (JoEG) or deciding whether a spatial-economics / economic-geography 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 Journal Of Financial ResearchUse when targeting 《金融研究》(Journal of Financial Research) — the PBC-affiliated top finance journal in China. Apply to monetary policy, banking, capital markets, corporate finance, financial risk and regulation, and fintech papers, balancing rigorous identification with concrete financial-system policy relevance. Distinguishes macro-finance from micro corporate-finance framings.
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thedixitjain Skill Journal Of Management StudiesUse when targeting Journal of Management Studies (JMS) or deciding whether a theory-driven, methodologically pluralistic management 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 Journal Of Monetary EconomicsUse when targeting Journal of Monetary Economics (JME) or deciding whether a macro / monetary 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 Journal Of Physical EducationUse when targeting 《体育学刊》(Journal of Physical Education) — a CSSCI sport-science journal (South China Normal University) with a strong profile in school physical education and sport humanities & social science (mass sport, sport policy, sport sociology), alongside general sport science. Best for school-PE reform, youth fitness/health promotion, and theory-engaged sport social science; route lab exercise science and applied competitive work to the exercise-science / 中国体育科技 venues.
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thedixitjain Skill Jpube Identification StrategyUse when the causal identification strategy is the bottleneck for a Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) manuscript — bunching at tax kinks/notches, regression kink (RKD), DID off reform rollout, IV from policy instruments, RDD at eligibility thresholds. Stress-tests the design against public-finance norms before tables are drafted.
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thedixitjain Skill Philosophy And Public AffairsUse when targeting Philosophy & Public Affairs or deciding whether an applied/political-moral philosophy manuscript on a matter of public concern fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the rigorous-argument and public-significance bar, dialectical-engagement expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Progress In Materials ScienceUse when targeting Progress in Materials Science or deciding whether a materials-science review fits this venue. Encodes the journal's review-only fit, the comprehensiveness-and-critical-synthesis bar, the scope-and-balance expectations, the often-invited/proposal route, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Revedres Literature SynthesisUse when executing the systematic search, screening to a PRISMA flow, and extracting data for a Review of Educational Research (RER) review or meta-analysis. Builds the documented evidence corpus; it does not impose the conceptual spine (revedres-organizing-framework) or run robustness/risk-of-bias appraisal (revedres-comprehensiveness-and-balance).
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thedixitjain Skill Revedres Organizing FrameworkUse when turning a screened, coded corpus into an analytic spine that advances theory or policy for a Review of Educational Research (RER) manuscript. Builds the conceptual contribution beyond a tally; it does not run the search (revedres-literature-synthesis) or appraise robustness/risk-of-bias (revedres-comprehensiveness-and-balance).
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thedixitjain Skill Shanghai Journal Of EconomicsUse when targeting 《上海经济研究》(Shanghai Journal of Economics — 上海社会科学院经济研究所主办的经济学月刊, 1982 年创刊, CSSCI) 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 Soil Biology And BiochemistryUse when targeting Soil Biology & Biochemistry or deciding whether a soil-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the soil-process-mechanism bar, evidence and data-reporting expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Studies In Science Of ScienceUse when targeting 《科学学研究》(Studies in Science of Science — 中国科学学与科技政策研究会等合办的科学学权威刊, 1983 年创刊, 匿名审稿) or deciding whether a Chinese science-of-science/innovation manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, anonymized-submission house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill The English Historical ReviewUse when targeting The English Historical Review (EHR) or deciding whether a British, European, or world history manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, its archival and empirical-rigor bar, primary-source and historiographical expectations, Chicago house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill The Journal Of Modern HistoryUse when targeting The Journal of Modern History or deciding whether a modern-European history manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, its archival-rigor-with-broad-significance bar, primary-source and historiographical expectations, Chicago house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Annual Review Of Plant BiologyUse when targeting Annual Review of Plant Biology or deciding whether a plant-biology review proposal fits this invited-review venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the authoritative-synthesis and invited-article bar, evidence and balance expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Coordination Chemistry ReviewsUse when targeting Coordination Chemistry Reviews (CCR) or deciding whether a review fits this Elsevier venue for coordination, inorganic, and organometallic chemistry. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Demog Data And ReproducibilityUse when preparing the data-availability statement and reproducibility materials for a Demography (PAA / Duke University Press) manuscript. Demography requires a data availability statement at acceptance with persistent identifiers and encourages reproducible, commented code; it hosts no repository, so authors deposit in a FAIR repository. Covers restricted-data exemptions. Prepares the materials; it does not waive requirements.
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thedixitjain Skill Devpsych Theory And HypothesesUse when stating the developmental theory and age-graded hypotheses for a Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript. The journal rewards hypotheses that are explicitly about change (age effects, within-person trajectories, mechanisms) and a clean confirmatory/exploratory split under JARS. Structures the argument; it does not run analyses.
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thedixitjain Skill East China Economic ManagementUse when targeting 《华东经济管理》(East China Economic Management — 中共安徽省委党校主办的经济管理综合月刊, 安徽合肥, CSSCI) or deciding whether a Chinese econ/management manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, review timeline, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Issues In Agricultural EconomyUse when targeting 《农业经济问题》(Issues in Agricultural Economy — 中国农业经济学会与中国农业科学院农业经济与发展研究所主办、农业农村部主管的农经综合月刊, 1980 年创刊, 双向匿名、收审稿费, iaecn.cn 投稿) or deciding whether a Chinese 三农/农经 manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, fee/review policy, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Jedpsych Theory And HypothesesUse when stating the learning/motivation theory and hypotheses for a Journal of Educational Psychology manuscript. JEP expects a clear psychological mechanism, directional hypotheses tied to that theory, and an honest separation of confirmatory (ideally preregistered) from exploratory analyses. Structures the argument; it does not run analyses.
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thedixitjain Skill Jep Evidence Without EquationsUse when presenting empirical or theoretical evidence credibly in a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article with minimal math — intuition, examples, well-chosen numbers, and honest caveats. Handles how evidence is conveyed in prose; defer figures/tables to jep-exhibits-for-general-readers and fairness across studies to jep-balance-and-objectivity.
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thedixitjain Skill Journal Of Accounting ResearchUse when targeting Journal of Accounting Research (JAR) or deciding whether an accounting 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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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 commres-transparency-and-data, conference-on-learning-theory, contemporary-economy-of-japan. 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.