A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how the Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) evaluates a manuscript — masked (anonymized) peer review, the action-editor model, the dual gate of…

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Install Joap Review Process

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills joap-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/Journal-of-Applied-Psychology-Skills/skills/joap-review-process .claude/skills/joap-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
joap-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
519 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how the Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) evaluates a manuscript — masked (anonymized) peer review, the action-editor model, the dual gate of…

  • Works in 6 steps: Masked review. Author identities are… → Editorial triage. The editor / action… → Action-editor model. An associate/action… → …
  • You need to understand how the Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) evaluates a manuscript — masked (anonymized) peer review
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How review works, The dual gate (what gets… and Desk-reject and…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Joap Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when you need to understand how the Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) evaluates a manuscript — masked (anonymized) peer review, the action-editor model, the dual gate of theoretical contribution and measurement/design rigor, and common desk-reject patterns. Use when stress-testing a paper before submission or interpreting a decision letter. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.

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.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Load testing and 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

  • You need to understand how the Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) evaluates a manuscript — masked (anonymized) peer review
  • The action-editor model
  • The dual gate of theoretical contribution and measurement/design rigor
  • Common desk-reject patterns

Example prompts

  • “/joap-review-process”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Masked review. Author identities are withheld throughout consideration; keep names out of the
  2. Editorial triage. The editor / action editor screens for fit, theoretical contribution, and
  3. Action-editor model. An associate/action editor manages the manuscript and several reviewers and
  4. External review assesses the theoretical contribution, construct validity and measurement,
  5. Transparency is weighed. TOP-aligned data/materials/code sharing and preregistration factor into
  6. Decisions. Reject, major/minor revise-and-resubmit, or accept; expect a demanding R&R, often

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

Joap Review Process loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 114 tokens; SKILL.md has 519 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~114
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 519 words, ~1,509 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/joap-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
joap-review-process
description
Use when you need to understand how the Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) evaluates a manuscript — masked (anonymized) peer review, the action-editor model, the dual gate of theoretical contribution and measurement/design rigor, and common desk-reject patterns. Use when stress-testing a paper before submission or interpreting a decision letter. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.

Review Process (joap-review-process)

JAP is selective and exacting. Reviewers and the action editor weigh theoretical contribution and methodological rigor together — an interesting finding with weak measurement, and a flawless design with no theory advance, are both common rejections. Review is masked (anonymized). Knowing how the gate works lets you pre-empt the standard rejection reasons.

When to trigger

  • Before submitting, to stress-test the manuscript
  • Deciding how to frame the contribution and rigor for masked reviewers
  • Interpreting a decision letter and setting expectations

How review works

  1. Masked review. Author identities are withheld throughout consideration; keep names out of the manuscript and out of repository/preregistration links (see joap-submission).
  2. Editorial triage. The editor / action editor screens for fit, theoretical contribution, and rigor; weak-fit or atheoretical papers are frequently desk rejected without full review.
  3. Action-editor model. An associate/action editor manages the manuscript and several reviewers and writes the decision; the editor's letter is the rubric you must satisfy on revision.
  4. External review assesses the theoretical contribution, construct validity and measurement, design and causal warrant, analysis (SEM/HLM/mediation/meta-analysis), and transparency.
  5. Transparency is weighed. TOP-aligned data/materials/code sharing and preregistration factor into evaluation; opacity is a mark against the paper.
  6. Decisions. Reject, major/minor revise-and-resubmit, or accept; expect a demanding R&R, often across multiple rounds, before acceptance.

The dual gate (what gets papers in)

GateWhat reviewers askWhere to fix it
Theoretical contributionIs there a new mechanism/boundary/integration?joap-theory-and-hypotheses, joap-literature-positioning
Construct validity / measurementAre the constructs validly measured?joap-study-design
Causal / inferential warrantDoes the design support the claim (CMV, nesting)?joap-study-design, joap-data-analysis
Analytic rigorSEM fit, indirect-effect CIs, multilevel done right?joap-data-analysis
TransparencyData/materials/code shared under TOP?joap-open-science-and-transparency
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Desk-reject and decline-without-review patterns

The dual gate means many manuscripts never reach external review. Confirm current categories on the official page, but recognize these shapes:

Pattern an editor seesLikely outcomePre-empt it by
Rigorous study, no theoretical advancedesk rejectstate the new mechanism/boundary/integration up front
Cross-sectional single-source self-reportdesk reject (rigor)add temporal/source separation or an experimental leg
Better fit for a sibling venuedesk reject (fit)make the I-O micro/measurement contribution explicit
Mediation by Sobel/steps; OLS on nested datathin-method flagmodern indirect-effect CIs; multilevel models
"Data available on request," no DOIsreturned for compliancedeposit with persistent IDs before submitting

Worked micro-example (illustrative triage)

Manuscript: two-wave multilevel field study (612 in 74 teams) + lab experiment,
            servant leadership → safety → performance, open data/materials/code,
            experiment preregistered, indirect-effect CI reported.
Editor read: contribution (cross-level mechanism + boundary), rigor (temporal +
            multilevel + experimental leg), transparency (TOP-aligned — strong).
Likely route: external review, probable major R&R (added robustness/alternative
            models, sharper boundary theory).
Counter-case: same finding, one cross-sectional single-source survey, no prereg,
            request-only data → likely desk reject.

How reviewers weigh the evidence (calibration anchors)

  • The single strongest signal is theory + rigor together: a clear mechanism and a design that can bear the causal/cumulative claim. Either alone usually loses.
  • A causal leg (experiment or field experiment) attached to a field study converts "interesting correlation" into "credible mechanism."
  • Transparency is weighed, not pass/fail — a candid exemption with an access path reads better than silent opacity; preregistration quality matters more than mere presence.
  • Expect multiple R&R rounds; reviewers test alternative explanations and measurement rivals hard.

Anti-patterns

  • A rigorous but atheoretical paper (the venue's most common rejection)
  • Cross-sectional single-source self-report as the whole evidentiary base
  • Exploratory results dressed as confirmatory
  • Weak or absent transparency (counts against the paper)
  • Expecting acceptance without a demanding, multi-round R&R

Output format

【Theoretical contribution】clear + new? [Y/N]
【Construct validity / measurement】adequate? [Y/N]
【Causal / inferential warrant】CMV + nesting handled? [Y/N]
【Analytic rigor】SEM fit / indirect CIs / multilevel correct? [Y/N]
【Transparency】data/materials/code + preregistration strong? [Y/N]
【Realistic outcome】desk reject / R&R / accept
【Next】joap-submission (or joap-rebuttal if decided)

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 Journal-of-Applied-Psychology-Skills/skills/joap-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Joap Review Process

What does Joap Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how the Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) evaluates a manuscript — masked (anonymized) peer review, the action-editor model, the dual gate of…. Joap Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when you need to understand how the Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) evaluates a manuscript — masked (anonymized) peer review, the action-editor model, the dual gate of theoretical contribution and measurement/design rigor, and common desk-reject patterns.

When should I use Joap Review Process?

Joap Review Process fits situations like: you need to understand how the Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) evaluates a manuscript — masked (anonymized) peer review; the action-editor model; the dual gate of theoretical contribution and measurement/design rigor; common desk-reject patterns.

How do I install Joap Review Process in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Joap Review Process in Codex?

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

Can I use Joap 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 joap-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/joap-review-process, .gemini/skills/joap-review-process, .github/skills/joap-review-process and .opencode/skills/joap-review-process in your project.

What does Joap Review Process need to run?

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

Does Joap 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 Joap 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 Joap Review Process use?

Joap 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 Joap Review Process use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k 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 Joap Review Process?

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Who maintains Joap 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.