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ZimoLiao/scholaraio
A skill your agent uses when the user asks about research themes, topic distribution, BERTopic clustering, topic overview, topic papers, topic merges, or HTML topic visualizations.
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at CSCW — is the group, community, or organization the real unit of analysis?
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Install Cscw Topic Selection
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cscw-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills cscw-topic-selection --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection .claude/skills/cscw-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "cscw-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection into .claude/skills/cscw-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cscw-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selectionType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cscw-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills cscw-topic-selection --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection .agents/skills/cscw-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "cscw-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection into .agents/skills/cscw-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cscw-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cscw-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills cscw-topic-selection --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection .cursor/skills/cscw-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "cscw-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/cscw-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cscw-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cscw-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills cscw-topic-selection --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection .gemini/skills/cscw-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cscw-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/cscw-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cscw-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills cscw-topic-selectionInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cscw-topic-selection -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection .github/skills/cscw-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cscw-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection into .github/skills/cscw-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cscw-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cscw-topic-selection -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills cscw-topic-selection --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection .opencode/skills/cscw-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cscw-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/cscw-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cscw-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
cscw-topic-selection- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.5k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 608 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at CSCW — is the group, community, or organization the real unit of analysis?
- Works in 3 steps: Who is the protagonist? If the sentence… → What does the technology mediate? CSCW… → Would the finding survive a platform…
- Deciding whether a project belongs at CSCW — is the group
- SKILL.md covers The unit-of-analysis test, The routing decision, Contribution kinds CSCW's own… and Decision procedure, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Cscw Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at CSCW — is the group, community, or organization the real unit of analysis? — and running the routing decision against CHI, ICWSM, DIS, GROUP, TOCHI, and social-science journals before any drafting or platform account setup begins.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
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
- Deciding whether a project belongs at CSCW — is the group
- Organization the real unit of analysis?
Example prompts
- “/cscw-topic-selection”
Workflow steps
3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Who is the protagonist? If the sentence "we show that ___" is completed by a
- What does the technology mediate? CSCW cares about coordination, division of
- Would the finding survive a platform swap? Strong CSCW work says something
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
Cscw Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 75 tokens; SKILL.md has 608 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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). 608 words, ~1,468 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/cscw-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- cscw-topic-selection
- description
- Use when deciding whether a project belongs at CSCW — is the group, community, or organization the real unit of analysis? — and running the routing decision against CHI, ICWSM, DIS, GROUP, TOCHI, and social-science journals before any drafting or platform account setup begins.
CSCW Topic Selection
CSCW publishes human-centered research on technology that supports or reshapes social, cooperative, and collaborative practice. The venue test is not "does this involve people and computers" — nearly everything does — but whether the paper's explanatory action happens at the level of a group, community, organization, or network. Run this decision before writing, because the framing it produces changes the introduction, the methods, and even which platform you submit through.
The unit-of-analysis test
Ask three questions of the project's core claim:
- Who is the protagonist? If the sentence "we show that ___" is completed by a team, a community, a moderation crew, a platform's user population, or an organization, CSCW is plausible. If it is completed by "users" as interchangeable individuals, you are probably describing a different venue's paper.
- What does the technology mediate? CSCW cares about coordination, division of labor, governance, trust, awareness, and collective sense-making. A faster or prettier interaction with no social consequence is not the venue's question.
- Would the finding survive a platform swap? Strong CSCW work says something about cooperative practice that outlives the specific system studied. If your contribution evaporates when the platform changes its UI, sharpen the social claim first.
The routing decision
| Signal in your project | Better home | Why |
|---|---|---|
| The novelty is an interaction technique, input method, or interface design | CHI (or UIST for technique depth) | CSCW reviewers will ask "where is the group?" and find no answer |
| Large-scale social-media measurement with no design or cooperative-work stake | ICWSM | Measurement-first culture; CSCW wants the collaboration consequence drawn out |
| A designed artifact where the argument is the design process itself | DIS | Design-research epistemology has its own reviewing home |
| Smaller-scope group-work study wanting a community conversation | GROUP | Same intellectual family, different scale and pacing |
| A mature line needing unlimited space and no conference tie | TOCHI or a social-science journal | CSCW already runs journal review, but PACMHCI CSCW papers carry a conference presentation expectation |
| Governance/harms analysis where accountability frameworks are the core | FAccT | Policy-normative reviewing culture fits better |
The CHI/CSCW boundary is the one most authors get wrong, in both directions.
Both venues accept qualitative and quantitative work about people and technology.
The working separation: CHI's center of gravity is the human-computer interaction
— capability, interface, individual experience; CSCW's is the human-human
arrangement that computing mediates. A study of how a screen-reader user navigates
a document is CHI-shaped; a study of how blind and sighted colleagues co-edit that
document is CSCW-shaped. When a project genuinely supports both framings, choose by
which literature you need reviewers to know deeply — and note that as of 2026 the
two venues differ structurally: CHI runs an annual deadline, while CSCW has moved to
rolling journal-style submission (see cscw-workflow).
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Contribution kinds CSCW's own canon rewards
The venue's Lasting Impact lineage (see resources/exemplars/library.md) spans
organizational analysis, concept development, theory for design, sensitive-community
fieldwork, and large-scale trace analysis. All five registers are first-class. What
they share is not a method but a shape: an empirical or analytic account of
cooperative practice that other researchers can build with.
Weak-fit signals, regardless of topic:
- The word "collaborative" appears only in the motivation section.
- Participants were recruited as isolated individuals for a lab task, and the "group" exists only as an aggregate statistic.
- The design implications could have been written before the study.
- The paper studies a community's data without any account of the community's own practices, norms, or stakes — extraction without engagement.
Decision procedure
Run this before committing to the venue:
[Claim owner] Complete: "This paper shows that <group/community/org> ___"
If no collective completes it honestly → re-route or re-frame.
[Mediation] Name the cooperative practice the technology touches
(coordination / governance / awareness / trust / labor).
[Survival test] State the finding with the platform name deleted.
Still interesting? → CSCW-shaped.
[Nearest neighbor] Name the ONE venue you'd choose if CSCW rejected the framing,
and why its reviewers differ.
[Regime check] Confirm the current submission pathway (rolling via
Manuscript Central as of 2026-07-08) before planning dates.Fit verdict format
[CSCW fit] Strong / Conditional / Weak — one sentence on the unit of analysis
[Cooperative practice at stake] <named practice>
[Contribution kind] organizational analysis / concept / theory-for-design /
community study / trace analysis / system
[Re-route candidate] <venue + the reviewer-culture reason>
[Framing repair] <the single change that would most improve CSCW fit>Facts here reflect cscw.acm.org and the rolling CFP as checked on 2026-07-08; the venue is mid-transition, so re-verify submission mechanics whenever routing advice turns into a plan.
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Files
Just SKILL.md in CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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| Bestblogs Topicginobefun/BestBlogs | 4k | — | ~670 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Zsxq Topicitwanger/toBeBetterJavaer | 18k | — | ~564 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Pubmed Topic Recommendaipoch/medical-research-skills | 2k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Cscw Topic Selection
What does Cscw Topic Selection do?
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at CSCW — is the group, community, or organization the real unit of analysis? Cscw Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at CSCW — is the group, community, or organization the real unit of analysis?
When should I use Cscw Topic Selection?
Cscw Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project belongs at CSCW — is the group; organization the real unit of analysis?.
How do I install Cscw Topic Selection in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cscw-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/cscw-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Cscw Topic Selection in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cscw-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/cscw-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Cscw Topic Selection 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 cscw-topic-selection -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cscw-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/cscw-topic-selection, .github/skills/cscw-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/cscw-topic-selection in your project.
What does Cscw Topic Selection need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Cscw Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
Does Cscw Topic Selection 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 Cscw Topic Selection 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 Cscw Topic Selection use?
Cscw Topic Selection 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 Cscw Topic Selection use?
About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.9k 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 Cscw Topic Selection?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Cscw Topic Selection: Topics (ZimoLiao/scholaraio, 577 stars), Topic Modeling (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.5k stars), Bestblogs Topic (ginobefun/BestBlogs, 4k stars) and Zsxq Topic (itwanger/toBeBetterJavaer, 18k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Cscw Topic Selection?
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 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.