A skill your agent uses when anticipating the objections a European Economic Review (EER) referee will raise — under single-anonymized review across any field — and pre-empting them before submission.

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Install Eer Referee Strategy

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eer-referee-strategy -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills eer-referee-strategy --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/European-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/eer-referee-strategy .claude/skills/eer-referee-strategy && 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
eer-referee-strategy
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
526 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when anticipating the objections a European Economic Review (EER) referee will raise — under single-anonymized review across any field — and pre-empting them before submission.

  • Works in 5 steps: Pre-empt the top three objections in the… → Write for the cited referee: be accurate… → Reduce desk-screen risk: make breadth… → …
  • Tasks that involve Peer review
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The EER referee reality, Map objection → pre-emption and Strategy moves, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Eer Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating the objections a European Economic Review (EER) referee will raise — under single-anonymized review across any field — and pre-empting them before submission. Maps likely pushback to fixes; it does not draft the response letter (use eer-rebuttal after a decision).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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

  • Tasks that involve Peer review

Example prompts

  • “/eer-referee-strategy”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Pre-empt the top three objections in the paper, not just the response letter — a referee who finds the answer already there has less to…
  2. Write for the cited referee: be accurate and fair to the literature; do not dismiss the person likely refereeing you.
  3. Reduce desk-screen risk: make breadth and novelty unmissable in the abstract and first paragraph.
  4. Pre-build the robustness/identification appendix the obvious referee will ask for, and signal it in-text.
  5. Keep claims calibrated — overclaiming is the fastest route to a hostile report.

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

Eer Referee Strategy loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 77 tokens; SKILL.md has 526 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~77
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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). 526 words, ~1,219 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/eer-referee-strategy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
eer-referee-strategy
description
Use when anticipating the objections a European Economic Review (EER) referee will raise — under single-anonymized review across any field — and pre-empting them before submission. Maps likely pushback to fixes; it does not draft the response letter (use eer-rebuttal after a decision).

Referee Strategy (eer-referee-strategy)

When to trigger

  • The paper is near-complete and you want to pre-empt predictable referee objections
  • You are unsure who the likely referees are and what they will attack
  • An editor desk-screen risk needs reducing (breadth/novelty/fit)
  • Before submission, to convert anticipated objections into in-paper defenses

The EER referee reality

EER review is single-anonymized: the referee sees who the authors are. The referee is typically an expert in your exact design or field and frequently someone you cite. Two gates precede them: an editor desk-screen (out-of-scope or low-novelty papers are rejected without review, and the submission fee is non-refundable), then ≥2 external referees for an independent assessment (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准). The first decision is usually fast; the strategic move is to pre-empt the predictable objections in the paper itself so a referee has less to grab.

Map objection → pre-emption

Likely objectionPre-emption (where it lives)
"Not general interest / too narrow"breadth hook on page one (eer-topic-selection, eer-writing-style)
"Contribution is incremental / already known"named frontier delta + concurrent-work distinction (eer-literature-positioning)
"Identification is not credible"design-appropriate estimator + key-assumption defense (eer-identification)
"TWFE is biased here"heterogeneity-robust DiD + flat leads (eer-identification)
"Exclusion restriction is assumed, not defended"theory + institutions + falsification (eer-identification)
"Result is fragile / spec-dependent"coefficient-stability battery (eer-robustness)
"Inference ignores clustering/dependence"correct clustering + wild bootstrap / dependence-robust SEs (eer-robustness)
"Model is decorative"model delivers the tested comparative static (eer-theory-model)
"Can't reproduce this"replication package ready + data statement (eer-replication-package)
"Exhibits unreadable / stars instead of SEs"one headline table with SEs (eer-tables-figures)

Strategy moves

  1. Pre-empt the top three objections in the paper, not just the response letter — a referee who finds the answer already there has less to demand.
  2. Write for the cited referee: be accurate and fair to the literature; do not dismiss the person likely refereeing you.
  3. Reduce desk-screen risk: make breadth and novelty unmissable in the abstract and first paragraph.
  4. Pre-build the robustness/identification appendix the obvious referee will ask for, and signal it in-text.
  5. Keep claims calibrated — overclaiming is the fastest route to a hostile report.
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Checklist

  • Top 3 likely objections listed, each with where it is pre-empted in the paper
  • Breadth + novelty visible enough to survive the editor desk-screen
  • Identification/robustness defenses already in the draft (not deferred to rebuttal)
  • Literature treatment fair and accurate (referee may be a cited author)
  • Claims calibrated to evidence; no overselling
  • Replication materials ready to disarm a reproducibility objection

Anti-patterns

  • Assuming anonymity and writing dismissively about the likely referee's own work
  • Saving every defense for the rebuttal instead of pre-empting in the paper
  • Submitting a marginal-fit paper and losing the non-refundable fee to a desk reject
  • Overclaiming and handing the referee an easy "the evidence does not support this"
  • Ignoring an obvious robustness test the field referee will certainly request

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A finance paper anticipates three objections: (1) "endogenous treatment" → adds an IV with a defended exclusion and a placebo; (2) "driven by the crisis years" → leave-out-period robustness in-text; (3) "incremental vs. paper X" → a sentence naming exactly how it relaxes X's key assumption. All three are answered in the submitted paper. When the report arrives, the referee's main asks are already addressed, shortening the R&R.

Output format

【Likely referee profile】field/design expert; possibly cited author
【Top 3 objections】each + where pre-empted in the paper
【Desk-screen risk】breadth/novelty visible up front? [Y/N]
【Pre-built defenses】identification/robustness/replication ready? [Y/N]
【Claim calibration】matched to evidence? [Y/N]
【Next step】eer-submission (preflight) → eer-rebuttal (after decision)

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Files

Just SKILL.md in European-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/eer-referee-strategy of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Eer Referee Strategy

What does Eer Referee Strategy do?

A skill your agent uses when anticipating the objections a European Economic Review (EER) referee will raise — under single-anonymized review across any field — and pre-empting them before submission. Eer Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating the objections a European Economic Review (EER) referee will raise — under single-anonymized review across any field — and pre-empting them before submission.

When should I use Eer Referee Strategy?

Eer Referee Strategy fits situations like: tasks that involve Peer review.

How do I install Eer Referee Strategy in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eer-referee-strategy -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (European-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/eer-referee-strategy in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/eer-referee-strategy in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Eer Referee Strategy in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eer-referee-strategy -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (European-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/eer-referee-strategy in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/eer-referee-strategy in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Eer Referee Strategy 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 eer-referee-strategy -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/eer-referee-strategy, .gemini/skills/eer-referee-strategy, .github/skills/eer-referee-strategy and .opencode/skills/eer-referee-strategy in your project.

What does Eer Referee Strategy need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Eer Referee Strategy is instructions for the agent only.

Does Eer Referee Strategy 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 Eer Referee Strategy 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 Eer Referee Strategy use?

Eer Referee Strategy 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 Eer Referee Strategy use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Eer Referee Strategy?

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.

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