Agent skill

Progress In Materials Science

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

A skill your agent uses when targeting Progress in Materials Science or deciding whether a materials-science review fits this venue.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Progress In Materials Science

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill progress-in-materials-science -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills progress-in-materials-science --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/Engineering-Technology-Journal-Skills/skills/progress-in-materials-science .claude/skills/progress-in-materials-science && 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
progress-in-materials-science
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
896 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when targeting Progress in Materials Science or deciding whether a materials-science review fits this venue.

  • Targeting Progress in Materials Science
  • SKILL.md covers Journal positioning, When to trigger, Scope & topic fit and Method & evidence bar, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Deciding whether a materials-science review fits this venue

What it does

Progress In Materials Science is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Progress in Materials Science or deciding whether a materials-science review fits this venue. Encodes the journal's review-only fit, the comprehensiveness-and-critical-synthesis bar, the scope-and-balance expectations, the often-invited/proposal route, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

Its SKILL.md is about 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 Physical and earth sciences. 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

  • Targeting Progress in Materials Science
  • Deciding whether a materials-science review fits this venue

Example prompts

  • “/progress-in-materials-science”

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

Progress In Materials Science loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 93 tokens; SKILL.md has 896 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~93
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~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). 896 words, ~2,023 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/progress-in-materials-science/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
progress-in-materials-science
description
Use when targeting Progress in Materials Science or deciding whether a materials-science review fits this venue. Encodes the journal's review-only fit, the comprehensiveness-and-critical-synthesis bar, the scope-and-balance expectations, the often-invited/proposal route, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

Progress in Materials Science (progress-in-materials-science)

Journal positioning

Progress in Materials Science is an Elsevier review journal that publishes authoritative, comprehensive, and critical reviews spanning the breadth of materials science and engineering. Its defining product is the definitive critical review of an active, important field — a synthesis that maps the state of the art, reconciles conflicting evidence, exposes open problems, and sets a research agenda — not a report of new primary data. The journal rewards breadth of coverage, depth of critical judgment, and balance across competing schools of thought; a narrow mini-review, a literature roundup with no synthesis, or an unsolicited primary-research paper is a misfit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official author guidelines. Before submitting or proposing, re-check the live Progress in Materials Science Guide for Authors and any proposal process.

When to trigger

  • The author has a comprehensive, critical review of a materials field and is weighing Progress in Materials Science as the venue.
  • A manuscript must be re-framed from "here are our new results" into a field-spanning critical synthesis, or the author is unsure their piece is a review at all.
  • The author is deciding between this journal, a shorter review outlet, and a primary-research venue, and needs the comprehensiveness/balance bar.
  • The author needs the proposal/invitation expectations and the review-specific desk-reject heuristics.

Scope & topic fit

  • Comprehensive critical reviews across the full span of materials science: metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, semiconductors, and emerging classes.
  • Reviews of processing–structure–property–performance understanding in a field, synthesizing how mechanism-level knowledge has matured over time.
  • Cross-cutting methodological reviews (characterization, computation, design frameworks) when they critically appraise the field rather than tutorialize.
  • Topics with a substantial, mature body of literature that genuinely needs a consolidating, evaluative synthesis — not nascent areas with thin evidence.
  • Reviews that frame the unresolved controversies and chart credible future directions for the community, not just summarize what has been published.
  • Authoritative coverage written by authors with demonstrable command of the field; the review is expected to be a reference work, often invited.

Method & evidence bar

  • The contribution is critical synthesis: the review must weigh, compare, and judge the literature, not merely catalog it; uncritical summaries are rejected.
  • Coverage must be comprehensive and balanced — major schools of thought, competing models, and contradictory results are represented and reconciled, not cherry-picked toward the authors' own work.
  • Claims about the state of the field must be traceable to the primary literature with accurate, complete, and current citation; key foundational and recent works must both be present.
  • The review should add value beyond existing reviews: state explicitly what gap in the existing review literature it fills and why now.
  • Figures and tables must be evaluative tools (comparative property maps, mechanism schematics, taxonomies), with permissions secured for reproduced material; the synthesis, not the figure count, carries the article.
  • Any original analysis (re-plotted data, meta-comparison) must be methodologically transparent and clearly distinguished from reproduced material.
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Structure & house style

  • Long-form review structure: a framing introduction, thematically organized critical sections, a synthesis/outlook, and an exhaustive reference list; Progress in Materials Science publishes comprehensive reviews, so route short-form reviews and primary papers elsewhere and re-check current article types on the live guide.
  • The introduction defines the field, the scope boundaries, and why a critical review is needed now; it is not a primer.
  • Sections build an argument about the state of knowledge — each ends with what is settled, what is contested, and what remains open.
  • Figures are mostly curated/comparative; secure copyright permissions and credit sources for every reproduced figure per the current policy.
  • A forward-looking outlook section identifying the most consequential open problems is expected of a definitive review.

Official-submission checklist

  • Before giving submission-ready advice, read ../../resources/source-basis.md and ../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the Elsevier anchors, then cite the current Progress in Materials Science Guide for Authors page you checked.
  • Search the live site for "Progress in Materials Science guide for authors" and follow the current Elsevier/Editorial Manager version.
  • Check whether a review proposal / pre-submission inquiry or editor invitation is expected before a full manuscript, and follow the current process.
  • Re-check expectations for review length, figure/table permissions, and copyright clearance for all reproduced material.
  • Re-check competing-interests, funding, author-contribution (CRediT), and AI-use disclosure requirements, plus any conflict-of-interest rules for reviews citing the authors' own work heavily.
  • If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.

Pre-submission self-check

  • The piece is a comprehensive, critical review — not a primary-research paper or a thin mini-review.
  • Coverage is balanced across competing models/schools, not skewed toward the authors' own contributions.
  • Every state-of-the-field claim is traceable to accurate, current primary citations.
  • The review states explicitly what gap in the existing review literature it fills.
  • All reproduced figures/tables have secured permissions and proper attribution.
  • A forward-looking outlook identifies the most consequential open problems.

Common desk-reject triggers

  • An unsolicited primary-research manuscript submitted to a review-only venue.
  • A narrow mini-review or a literature roundup with summary but no critical synthesis.
  • Coverage biased toward the authors' own work, with major competing views omitted.
  • A field too immature or too narrow to warrant a definitive comprehensive review.
  • Outdated or incomplete referencing that misrepresents the current state of the art.
  • Reproduced figures without permissions or with missing source attribution.

Re-routing decision

  • Primary processing–structure–property research → acta-materialia.
  • High-impact, shorter conceptual review/perspective → nature-reviews-materials or nature-materials.
  • Concrete/cementitious-materials review or science → cement-and-concrete-research.
  • Polymer/structural-composite focused review → composites-part-b-engineering.
  • Additive-manufacturing-specific review or process study → additive-manufacturing.

Output format

text
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Progress in Materials Science
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest materials subfields>
[Review type] comprehensive critical review / (misfit: primary paper / mini-review)
[Synthesis] <the central critical argument about the field in one line>
[Coverage/balance] <is coverage comprehensive and balanced across competing views?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <proposal route / length / figure permissions / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Engineering-Technology-Journal-Skills/skills/progress-in-materials-science of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Progress In Materials Science

What does Progress In Materials Science do?

A skill your agent uses when targeting Progress in Materials Science or deciding whether a materials-science review fits this venue. Progress In Materials Science is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Progress in Materials Science or deciding whether a materials-science review fits this venue.

When should I use Progress In Materials Science?

Progress In Materials Science fits situations like: targeting Progress in Materials Science; deciding whether a materials-science review fits this venue.

How do I install Progress In Materials Science in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill progress-in-materials-science -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Engineering-Technology-Journal-Skills/skills/progress-in-materials-science in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/progress-in-materials-science in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Progress In Materials Science in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill progress-in-materials-science -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Engineering-Technology-Journal-Skills/skills/progress-in-materials-science in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/progress-in-materials-science in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Progress In Materials Science 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 progress-in-materials-science -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/progress-in-materials-science, .gemini/skills/progress-in-materials-science, .github/skills/progress-in-materials-science and .opencode/skills/progress-in-materials-science in your project.

What does Progress In Materials Science need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Progress In Materials Science is instructions for the agent only.

Does Progress In Materials Science 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 Progress In Materials Science 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 Progress In Materials Science use?

Progress In Materials Science 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 Progress In Materials Science use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.1k 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 Progress In Materials Science?

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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