A skill your agent uses to understand how an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript will be judged — masked/double-anonymous peer review, desk screening, integrated-journal fit, and…

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Install Aerj Review Process

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aerj-review-process -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aerj-review-process --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/American-Educational-Research-Journal-Skills/skills/aerj-review-process .claude/skills/aerj-review-process && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
aerj-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
561 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses to understand how an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript will be judged — masked/double-anonymous peer review, desk screening, integrated-journal fit, and…

  • Works in 4 steps: Fit framing. The manuscript names its… → Editorial screening / desk decision.… → Masked external review. Suitable papers… → …
  • Understand how an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript will be judged — masked/double-anonymous peer review
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How AERJ review works (verify…, What reviewers reward (write… and Anti-patterns, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Aerj Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use to understand how an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript will be judged — masked/double-anonymous peer review, desk screening, integrated-journal fit, and decision categories. Sets expectations and informs strategy; it does not contact editors or reviewers.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Peer review. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Understand how an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript will be judged — masked/double-anonymous peer review
  • Integrated-journal fit
  • Decision categories

Example prompts

  • “/aerj-review-process”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Fit framing. The manuscript names its dominant education-research lens and why the contribution
  2. Editorial screening / desk decision. Editors first assess fit and quality — broad
  3. Masked external review. Suitable papers go to multiple expert reviewers under **masked
  4. Decision. Typical categories: reject, revise and resubmit (R&R), or accept (usually

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Aerj Review Process loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 75 tokens; SKILL.md has 561 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~75
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 561 words, ~1,309 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aerj-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aerj-review-process
description
Use to understand how an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript will be judged — masked/double-anonymous peer review, desk screening, integrated-journal fit, and decision categories. Sets expectations and informs strategy; it does not contact editors or reviewers.

Review Process (aerj-review-process)

Knowing how AERJ evaluates a paper shapes how you write and submit it. AERJ uses masked / double-anonymous review, screens for fit before sending out for review, and expects a contribution that reaches the integrated field-wide AERJ audience. Verify volatile specifics (timelines, reviewer counts, desk-reject rate) on the official page — they are not published as fixed numbers.

When to trigger

  • Setting expectations before or after submission
  • Anticipating likely reviewer objections to pre-empt in the draft
  • Understanding why a desk rejection happened, or what an R&R signals
  • Deciding how to frame the cover letter for integrated AERJ fit

How AERJ review works (verify current details)

  1. Fit framing. The manuscript names its dominant education-research lens and why the contribution matters beyond one subfield.
  2. Editorial screening / desk decision. Editors first assess fit and quality — broad significance, framing, methodological soundness, and adherence to scope/standards. Off-fit or clearly under-developed papers may be desk-rejected without external review.
  3. Masked external review. Suitable papers go to multiple expert reviewers under masked (anonymous) review — reviewers do not see author identities, and authors do not see reviewer identities. Reviewers judge significance, framework, design/method, analysis, and contribution.
  4. Decision. Typical categories: reject, revise and resubmit (R&R), or accept (usually after revision). R&R is the common path to publication for promising work.

What reviewers reward (write toward these)

  • A question of broad significance with a clear conceptual/theoretical framework
  • A design and analysis that meet the AERA reporting standards for the method
  • Honest scope conditions, limitations, and attention to equity/context
  • Self-contained, APA-formatted exhibits and clear, field-legible prose

Anti-patterns

  • Submitting a specialty-journal paper with no field-wide AERJ fit
  • A paper that only specialists would value (desk-reject risk on significance)
  • Method-standard mismatch (e.g., causal claims without a causal design)
  • Leaving identifying clues that compromise masking
  • Treating an R&R as acceptance rather than a demanding revision
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How a manuscript moves through AERJ (decision map)

AERJ's integrated structure means your paper is judged for field-wide education-research significance, not by method alone. This map shows the gates and what each one tests.

GateWho decidesWhat it testsFailure outcome
Fit framingEditorial officeDominant education lens + field-wide significanceWeak fit slows or weakens review
Editorial screenHandling editorBroad significance, framing, soundness, scopeDesk reject (no external review)
Masked external reviewMultiple masked reviewersSignificance, framework, design, analysis, contributionReject or R&R
DecisionEditor adjudicatesConvergence of reviewer judgmentsReject / R&R / accept-after-revision

Worked review vignette (illustrative)

A paper on motivation in online learning draws a desk-screen concern: the significance reads as one-platform-specific. The authors had front-loaded a broad self-regulation framing, so the editor sends it out. Two masked reviewers split — one praises the multilevel analysis, one wants the qualitative interview strand integrated. The editor's letter makes the integration the decisive point. Reading that letter as the rubric (not weighting the two reviewers equally) is what turns the R&R into an acceptance. Desk-reject rates and reviewer counts are not published as fixed figures — confirm against the journal's current submission guidelines.

Pre-empting the likely objections

  • Significance reads niche. → Strengthen the field-wide stake in the introduction before submitting.
  • Method-standard mismatch. → Align causal language with a causal design; meet the AERA standard for your method.
  • Masking slips. → Remove self-citation tells and identifying clues that let a reviewer guess the authorship.

Output format

【AERJ fit】dominant lens + field-wide significance stated? [Y/N]
【Desk-screen risk】fit + significance + standards [low/med/high]
【Likely reviewer objections】top 2–3 to pre-empt
【Decision categories】reject / R&R / accept-after-revision
【Prep】what to strengthen before submitting
【Next】aerj-submission (or aerj-rebuttal on a decision)

Supplementary resources

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in American-Educational-Research-Journal-Skills/skills/aerj-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Aerj Review Process

What does Aerj Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses to understand how an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript will be judged — masked/double-anonymous peer review, desk screening, integrated-journal fit, and…. Aerj Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use to understand how an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript will be judged — masked/double-anonymous peer review, desk screening, integrated-journal fit, and decision categories.

When should I use Aerj Review Process?

Aerj Review Process fits situations like: understand how an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript will be judged — masked/double-anonymous peer review; integrated-journal fit; decision categories.

How do I install Aerj Review Process in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aerj-review-process -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (American-Educational-Research-Journal-Skills/skills/aerj-review-process in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/aerj-review-process in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Aerj Review Process in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aerj-review-process -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (American-Educational-Research-Journal-Skills/skills/aerj-review-process in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/aerj-review-process in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Aerj Review Process in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aerj-review-process -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/aerj-review-process, .gemini/skills/aerj-review-process, .github/skills/aerj-review-process and .opencode/skills/aerj-review-process in your project.

What does Aerj Review Process need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Aerj Review Process is instructions for the agent only.

Does Aerj Review Process access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Aerj Review Process safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Aerj Review Process use?

Aerj Review Process is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Aerj Review Process use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Aerj Review Process?

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Who maintains Aerj Review Process?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.