Agent skill

Jegeo Referee Strategy

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript, where the panel typically pairs an economist with a geographer.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Jegeo Referee Strategy

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jegeo-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/Journal-of-Economic-Geography-Skills/skills/jegeo-referee-strategy .claude/skills/jegeo-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
jegeo-referee-strategy
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
892 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript, where the panel typically pairs an economist with a geographer.

  • Works in 2 steps: As the economist: Is anything not… → As the geographer: Does place do…
  • Anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The defining feature: you will…, Pre-empting each side and Triage: fix now vs. hold for R&R, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jegeo Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript, where the panel typically pairs an economist with a geographer. Maps likely cross-disciplinary objections to fixes; it does not invent results.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k 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

  • Anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript
  • Where the panel typically pairs an economist with a geographer

Example prompts

  • “/jegeo-referee-strategy”

Workflow steps

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

  1. As the economist: Is anything not identified? Is inference honest under spatial correlation? Would I believe the magnitude? Does it travel…
  2. As the geographer: Does place do analytical work, or is it a control? Is there a mechanism grounded in real regions and institutions? Is…

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

Jegeo Referee Strategy loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 65 tokens; SKILL.md has 892 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~65
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k

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.

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SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 892 words, ~1,775 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jegeo-referee-strategy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jegeo-referee-strategy
description
Use when anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript, where the panel typically pairs an economist with a geographer. Maps likely cross-disciplinary objections to fixes; it does not invent results.

Referee Strategy (jegeo-referee-strategy)

When to trigger

  • Before submission, to pre-empt the objections a two-community panel will raise
  • The paper leans heavily toward one tradition and you need to armor the side a hostile referee will attack
  • You want to decide which robustness/exhibit work is worth doing now vs. holding for an R&R
  • You are choosing which reviewers to suggest or oppose for a JEG submission

The defining feature: you will face both communities

JEG's review almost always pairs an economist and a geographer (the board is drawn from both, and editors deliberately route across the bridge). Their objections are systematically different, and a paper that satisfies one often provokes the other. Plan for both, in one manuscript, under double-anonymous review.

The economist referee tends to attackThe geographer referee tends to attack
identification, selection, weak instruments"where is the geography?" — space as mere fixed effect
spatial autocorrelation / overstated inferenceabsence of mechanism, context, or institutional texture
external validity of a single settingover-formalization that flattens real places
whether the model is identified vs. calibrateda quantitative result with no theory it speaks to
magnitude and economic significancescale/units chosen without geographic reasoning (MAUP)

Pre-empting each side

For the economist referee: make the identification and inference bulletproof before submission — modern staggered estimators, Conley SEs, spillover bounds, a defended instrument (see jegeo-identification, jegeo-robustness). Report magnitudes, not asterisks. Address external validity head-on.

For the geographer referee: make place do real analytical work — name the mechanism in prose, justify the spatial scale substantively, engage the evolutionary/institutional literature, and ensure the maps argue (see jegeo-theory-model, jegeo-tables-figures). Never let space be only a control.

The bridge insurance: the single best defense is a paper where the mechanism is the same object both referees can grip — the economist sees it identified, the geographer sees it grounded in place. If you can write that one sentence, you can usually satisfy both.

Triage: fix now vs. hold for R&R

  • Fix now: anything that could trigger a desk-reject or a "reject" from either community — missing mechanism, fragile spatial scale, overstated inference, no engagement with half the literature.
  • Anticipate and pre-answer in the text: known limitations either side will raise — state them and bound them rather than hoping they go unnoticed.
  • Hold for R&R only: large extensions a referee might request but that are not load-bearing for the current claim; signal willingness without pre-building everything.

Reviewer suggestions

  • Suggest reviewers from both communities so the editor can balance the panel; a list skewed to one side signals a one-community paper.
  • Oppose reviewers only for genuine conflicts; do not try to engineer an all-friendly panel — JEG editors expect cross-disciplinary scrutiny.

The cover letter as a routing signal

Under double-anonymous review the cover letter is your one chance to tell the editor how to balance the panel. Use it deliberately:

  • Name the paper's contribution in a sentence that signals both communities — so the editor knows to seek one economist and one geographer rather than two of either.
  • If the paper leans strongly to one tradition, say what it offers the other; this pre-empts the editor reading it as out-of-scope for half the board.
  • Suggested and opposed reviewers in the system should reinforce the same message — a balanced list tells the editor you understand JEG is a bridge.

A cover letter that frames the paper as single-community invites a single-community desk read, which at JEG is a fast rejection.

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Checklist

  • Economist-side objections (identification, inference, external validity) pre-empted with specific fixes
  • Geographer-side objections (mechanism, scale, place, literature) pre-empted with specific fixes
  • One mechanism sentence both referees can grip is in the paper
  • Known limitations stated and bounded in-text, not hidden
  • Suggested reviewers span both communities; oppositions are genuine conflicts only
  • Manuscript is double-anonymous-clean (body text, acknowledgments, file metadata)

Anti-patterns

  • Armoring only the side you come from and leaving the other community's objection wide open
  • Assuming both referees are economists (or both geographers) — JEG rarely works that way
  • A reviewer-suggestion list drawn entirely from one tradition
  • Hoping a known spatial-scale or mechanism weakness goes unnoticed rather than pre-answering it
  • Trying to stack an all-friendly panel instead of building a paper that survives scrutiny
  • Leaving authorship traces that defeat double-anonymity

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A paper using a quantitative-spatial model to evaluate a transport investment is strong on identification and inference. The author, an economist, armors only that side. Anticipate the geographer referee: they will ask why "region" is the unit (MAUP), where the institutional mechanism is (why do firms actually relocate?), and whether the model flattens real places into representative agents. Pre-empting that side before submission — adding a commuting-zone robustness check, a prose mechanism, and a paragraph on heterogeneity across regional contexts — converts a likely split decision into a clean R&R. The economist's questions were already answered; the unanticipated geographer was the real risk.

A simple pre-submission red-team

Read your own paper twice, once as each referee:

  1. As the economist: Is anything not identified? Is inference honest under spatial correlation? Would I believe the magnitude? Does it travel beyond this setting?
  2. As the geographer: Does place do analytical work, or is it a control? Is there a mechanism grounded in real regions and institutions? Is the scale defended? Did the authors engage my literature?

Any "no" in either pass is a risk to fix now or pre-answer in the text — not to discover in the reports.

Output format

text
【Journal】Journal of Economic Geography
【Skill】jegeo-referee-strategy
【Economist-side risks】top objections + fix status (now/anticipated/R&R)
【Geographer-side risks】top objections + fix status (now/anticipated/R&R)
【Bridge sentence】the one mechanism both referees can grip
【Reviewer suggestions】names/areas spanning both communities
【Anonymity】double-anonymous clean? [Y/N]
【Next skill】jegeo-submission

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Economic-Geography-Skills/skills/jegeo-referee-strategy of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jegeo Referee Strategy

What does Jegeo Referee Strategy do?

A skill your agent uses when anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript, where the panel typically pairs an economist with a geographer. Jegeo Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript, where the panel typically pairs an economist with a geographer.

When should I use Jegeo Referee Strategy?

Jegeo Referee Strategy fits situations like: anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript; where the panel typically pairs an economist with a geographer.

How do I install Jegeo Referee Strategy in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jegeo Referee Strategy in Codex?

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

Can I use Jegeo 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 jegeo-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/jegeo-referee-strategy, .gemini/skills/jegeo-referee-strategy, .github/skills/jegeo-referee-strategy and .opencode/skills/jegeo-referee-strategy in your project.

What does Jegeo Referee Strategy need to run?

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

Does Jegeo 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 Jegeo 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 Jegeo Referee Strategy use?

Jegeo 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 Jegeo Referee Strategy use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.1k 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 Jegeo 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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