A skill your agent uses when anticipating how a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript will be judged — anonymous (double-anonymized) peer review, what interdisciplinary referees weigh, and the…

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Install Newms Review Process

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills newms-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/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-review-process .claude/skills/newms-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
newms-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
529 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when anticipating how a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript will be judged — anonymous (double-anonymized) peer review, what interdisciplinary referees weigh, and the…

  • Anticipating how a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript will be judged — anonymous (double-anonymized) peer review
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How NM&S review works, What interdisciplinary… and Decision categories (typical…, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • What interdisciplinary referees weigh

What it does

Newms Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating how a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript will be judged — anonymous (double-anonymized) peer review, what interdisciplinary referees weigh, and the decision categories. Sets expectations; it does not write the paper or the response letter.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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 how a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript will be judged — anonymous (double-anonymized) peer review
  • What interdisciplinary referees weigh
  • The decision categories

Example prompts

  • “/newms-review-process”

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

Newms Review Process loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 71 tokens; SKILL.md has 529 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~71
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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). 529 words, ~1,376 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/newms-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
newms-review-process
description
Use when anticipating how a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript will be judged — anonymous (double-anonymized) peer review, what interdisciplinary referees weigh, and the decision categories. Sets expectations; it does not write the paper or the response letter.

Review Process (newms-review-process)

NM&S runs a strictly anonymous peer review: the reviewer's name is withheld from the author and the author's name from the reviewer (a double-anonymized model). Understanding what an interdisciplinary panel weighs — and how high the bar is, given the journal's very large submission volume — helps you preempt the objections before they become a decision.

When to trigger

  • Before submission, to stress-test the paper against likely referee objections
  • After a decision, to read the letter and decide whether to revise (then go to newms-rebuttal)
  • Estimating odds and effort given NM&S's selectivity

How NM&S review works

  • Anonymous (double-anonymized). Reviewer and author identities are mutually withheld — so the manuscript must be masked (no identifying names, affiliations, or self-revealing phrasing); you may cite your own work, just not in a way that names you. Confirm the current masking rules at submission.
  • High volume, high selectivity. NM&S receives a very large number of submissions (on the order of hundreds per month, per the journal's editor call). Desk rejection for fit/scope is common; clearing the fit gate (newms-topic-selection) matters before craft.
  • Editorial transition. The journal is moving to new editor(s) in 2026; editor-specific preferences may shift — anchor on the durable standards below, and verify volatile specifics on the live page.

What interdisciplinary referees weigh

DimensionThe question a referee asksWhere to fix it
Fit & significance"Does this matter for new media and society broadly?"newms-topic-selection
Positioning"Did they engage the right (multiple) literatures?"newms-literature-positioning
Conceptual payoff"Is there a portable idea, or just a platform report?"newms-theory-building
Method rigor"Is the design sound for its kind?"newms-research-design
Inference"Are claims warranted; is analysis transparent?"newms-data-analysis
Ethics"Was online/platform data handled ethically?"newms-transparency-and-data
Clarity"Will a cross-field reader follow it in ~8,000 words?"newms-writing-style
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Decision categories (typical SAGE journal pattern; confirm wording)

  • Reject (often desk, for fit/scope or fundamental flaws)
  • Major revision — substantial concerns; the modal "good news" outcome
  • Minor revision — close, address specific points
  • Accept — rare on first pass

Treat a major revision as a genuine invitation: a careful, point-by-point response (newms-rebuttal) materially improves the odds.

The pre-submission referee simulation

Before submitting, role-play three referees from different fields (e.g., a critical media scholar, a computational social scientist, an ethics-minded qualitative researcher). For each, write the single objection they would raise. If you cannot answer each in one paragraph plus one exhibit, that is a hole to fix now, not in the response letter.

Worked micro-example (illustrative)

Paper: digital ethnography of courier "datafied control."
Referee A (critical media): "Where's the political economy of the platform?" → add a paragraph on the
  business model; cite platform-capitalism literature (positioning).
Referee B (computational): "N=30, how general?" → restate the claim as a mechanism with scope conditions,
  not a population estimate (theory-building + research-design).
Referee C (ethics): "Did you consent the forum users?" → state IRB position + anonymization
  (transparency-and-data). All three answerable in a paragraph + exhibit → ready.

Calibration anchors

  • Fit is the first gate. With desk rejection common, an out-of-scope paper never reaches craft review.
  • Three fields, three objections. An interdisciplinary panel means the weakest cross-field link sinks you.
  • Verify volatile specifics. Masking rules, decision labels, and editor preferences can change — especially across the 2026 editorial transition; confirm on the live page.

Anti-patterns

  • Submitting an unmasked manuscript to an anonymous-review journal
  • Optimizing for one field's referee and ignoring the other two
  • Treating a major revision as a rejection instead of an invitation
  • Assuming a niche platform study will clear a high-volume desk screen
  • Relying on a specific editor's known taste during an editorial transition

Output format

【Stage】pre-submission stress-test / post-decision read
【Three referees】the cross-field objection from each, and whether answerable now
【Biggest risk】the dimension most likely to sink it, and the skill that fixes it
【Decision read】(if applicable) reject / major / minor / accept → next move
【Next】newms-submission (pre) or newms-rebuttal (post-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 New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Newms Review Process

What does Newms Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when anticipating how a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript will be judged — anonymous (double-anonymized) peer review, what interdisciplinary referees weigh, and the…. Newms Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating how a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript will be judged — anonymous (double-anonymized) peer review, what interdisciplinary referees weigh, and the decision categories.

When should I use Newms Review Process?

Newms Review Process fits situations like: anticipating how a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript will be judged — anonymous (double-anonymized) peer review; what interdisciplinary referees weigh; the decision categories.

How do I install Newms Review Process in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Newms Review Process in Codex?

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

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

What does Newms Review Process need to run?

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

Does Newms 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 Newms 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 Newms Review Process use?

Newms 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 Newms Review Process use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.5k 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 Newms Review Process?

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Who maintains Newms 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.