A skill your agent uses when anticipating how a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay will be judged — the double-anonymous review model, decision categories, and the desk-reject triggers…

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Install Phg Review Process

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills phg-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/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-review-process .claude/skills/phg-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
phg-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
557 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 Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay will be judged — the double-anonymous review model, decision categories, and the desk-reject triggers…

  • Anticipating how a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay will be judged — the double-anonymous review model
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What PiHG reviewers weigh, Desk-reject triggers… and Likely reviewer objections →…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Decision categories

What it does

Phg Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating how a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay will be judged — the double-anonymous review model, decision categories, and the desk-reject triggers specific to a review journal. Explains what to expect; it does not draft the manuscript or the response letter.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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

  • Anticipating how a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay will be judged — the double-anonymous review model
  • Decision categories
  • The desk-reject triggers specific to a review journal

Example prompts

  • “/phg-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

Phg Review Process loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 77 tokens; SKILL.md has 557 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
~1.3k

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

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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). 557 words, ~1,333 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/phg-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
phg-review-process
description
Use when anticipating how a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay will be judged — the double-anonymous review model, decision categories, and the desk-reject triggers specific to a review journal. Explains what to expect; it does not draft the manuscript or the response letter.

Review Process (phg-review-process)

Understanding how PiHG judges a submission lets you pre-empt the objections a review essay draws. PiHG is double-anonymous, and its reviewers are typically senior figures in the sub-field who know the literature you are reviewing intimately. They ask a different question than an empirical journal's referees: not "are the methods sound?" but "does this command the field, and does it move it forward?"

When to trigger

  • Before submission, to stress-test against likely reviewer objections
  • Interpreting a decision letter's category and tone (then route to phg-rebuttal)
  • Deciding whether a critique in review is fixable or fatal
  • Calibrating how ambitious the intervention can be for this venue

What PiHG reviewers weigh

CriterionThe questionWhere to fix pre-submission
Command of the literatureIs coverage complete, current, fair, and correctly attributed?phg-literature-positioning
SynthesisDo the sources add up to one argument, or is this a list?phg-argument-synthesis
Critical interventionDoes it say something the field does not already know?phg-critical-intervention
Conceptual clarityIs the organizing concept clear and load-bearing?phg-theory-building
Forward contributionDoes it leave the field with a usable agenda?phg-contribution-framing
Fit & genreIs it a review, not an empirical study? Right length/style?phg-topic-selection, phg-writing-style

Desk-reject triggers (review-journal-specific)

An editor can decline before review. The common triggers for a review essay:

  • An empirical study in disguise — findings are the spine; PiHG does not publish empirical results.
  • A summary, not a synthesis — an annotated bibliography with no argument.
  • No critical intervention — comprehensive but toothless; nothing the field learns.
  • Parochial or dated coverage — a partial, Global-North-only, or years-behind literature.
  • Out of scope / niche — a settled or narrow topic with no live debate or disciplinary stakes.
  • An uncommissioned "Progress Report" — that genre is invited, not open.
  • Over-length or wrong style — well past the ~8,000-word inclusive cap; non-Harvard.
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Likely reviewer objections → the pre-emption

ObjectionThe fix before submission
"This is a summary, not a synthesis."Rebuild the spine around sub-claims (phg-argument-synthesis).
"The critique is fair but adds nothing."Sharpen the intervention and its "changes practice" test (phg-critical-intervention).
"You missed literature X / misattributed Y."Widen and correct the corpus; steelman the camps (phg-literature-positioning).
"Coverage is Anglophone/Global-North only."Engage work beyond the centers; name the limit honestly.
"The framework is unclear."Make the concept load-bearing; add a conceptual exhibit (phg-theory-building, phg-tables-figures).
"So what for the field?"Deliver a specific forward agenda (phg-contribution-framing).

Decision categories (verify current wording on SAGE)

Typical outcomes: reject (often desk), major revision, minor revision, accept (rare on first pass). A major revision is a scoped invitation, not a rejection — route to phg-rebuttal. As a review journal, PiHG's revisions often ask you to strengthen the argument or widen the corpus, not to run new analyses.

Checklist

  • Coverage complete, current, fair, correctly attributed (command test)
  • Synthesis, not summary; one-sentence thesis holds
  • A genuine critical intervention that changes practice
  • Organizing concept clear and load-bearing
  • Forward agenda specific and portable
  • Genre, length, and style correct — no desk-reject triggers left

Anti-patterns

  • Treating PiHG referees as if they check methods rather than command of a field
  • Submitting with a known coverage gap and hoping reviewers miss it (they wrote it)
  • Reading a major revision as a rejection
  • Assuming a review needs new data to answer reviewers — it usually needs a sharper argument

Output format

【Likely outcome risk】desk-reject / major / minor — and why
【Weakest criterion】command / synthesis / intervention / clarity / contribution / fit
【Desk-reject triggers present?】empirical-in-disguise / summary / toothless / parochial / scope [list]
【Pre-emptions】the fixes to make before submitting
【Next】phg-submission (if fixing) or phg-rebuttal (if decision received)

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 Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Phg Review Process

What does Phg Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when anticipating how a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay will be judged — the double-anonymous review model, decision categories, and the desk-reject triggers…. Phg Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating how a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay will be judged — the double-anonymous review model, decision categories, and the desk-reject triggers specific to a review journal.

When should I use Phg Review Process?

Phg Review Process fits situations like: anticipating how a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay will be judged — the double-anonymous review model; decision categories; the desk-reject triggers specific to a review journal.

How do I install Phg Review Process in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Phg Review Process in Codex?

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

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

What does Phg Review Process need to run?

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

Does Phg 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 Phg 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 Phg Review Process use?

Phg 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 Phg Review Process use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Phg 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.