A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how SIGIR evaluates submissions — the per-track OpenReview machinery, double-blind full/short review versus single-anonymous Resources review, the…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Sigir Review Process

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills sigir-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/SIGIR-Skills/skills/sigir-review-process .claude/skills/sigir-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
sigir-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
682 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how SIGIR evaluates submissions — the per-track OpenReview machinery, double-blind full/short review versus single-anonymous Resources review, the…

  • Works in 5 steps: Is the comparison fair? (Tuned… → Are the differences real? (Paired… → Is the metric-task pairing sound?… → …
  • Reasoning about how SIGIR evaluates submissions — the per-track OpenReview machinery
  • SKILL.md covers The machinery, What SIGIR reviewers actually…, Reviewer archetypes and what… and Reading a decision packet, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Sigir Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how SIGIR evaluates submissions — the per-track OpenReview machinery, double-blind full/short review versus single-anonymous Resources review, the PC-member nomination duty, what IR reviewers score (evaluation validity above novelty claims), the ACM Peer Review Policy layer, and how decisions land.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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

  • Reasoning about how SIGIR evaluates submissions — the per-track OpenReview machinery
  • Double-blind full/short review versus single-anonymous Resources review
  • The PC-member nomination duty
  • What IR reviewers score (evaluation validity above novelty claims)

Example prompts

  • “/sigir-review-process”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Is the comparison fair? (Tuned baselines, same collections, same qrels, same
  2. Are the differences real? (Paired significance tests, multiple-comparison
  3. Is the metric-task pairing sound? (nDCG@10 for ad-hoc ranking, recall for
  4. Does the mechanism explain the gain? (Ablations that isolate the claimed source.)
  5. Only then: how novel is the idea, and how broadly does it matter?

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

Sigir Review Process loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 86 tokens; SKILL.md has 682 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~86
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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). 682 words, ~1,634 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/sigir-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
sigir-review-process
description
Use when reasoning about how SIGIR evaluates submissions — the per-track OpenReview machinery, double-blind full/short review versus single-anonymous Resources review, the PC-member nomination duty, what IR reviewers score (evaluation validity above novelty claims), the ACM Peer Review Policy layer, and how decisions land.

SIGIR Review Process

SIGIR review is track-partitioned: each track (full, short, resources, reproducibility, perspectives, industry, ...) runs its own OpenReview group with its own reviewer pool, anonymity regime, and calendar. Advice that treats "SIGIR review" as one process misroutes authors. This skill models the machinery and the reviewer psychology; exact per-cycle mechanics (rebuttal windows, score scales, meta-review forms) were not publicly verifiable for 2026 and must be read off your own submission's OpenReview timeline (待核实).

The machinery

ElementWhat was verified for 2026What to confirm per cycle
PlatformOpenReview, per-track venue groupsGroup id for your track
Full/short anonymityDouble-blind, fully anonymizedPreprint policy details
Resources anonymitySingle-anonymous (reviewers see authors)—
Reviewer sourcingFull-paper teams nominate one author as PC member per submissionWhether shorts/other tracks share the duty
Policy layerACM Peer Review Policy; automated compliance checks reservedCycle-specific screening tools
Decision structureNot extractableRebuttal? meta-reviews? conditional accepts?

The PC-nomination duty has a strategic edge authors miss: your nominated author will review other SIGIR submissions during your own paper's review window. Nominate someone senior enough to review credibly — chairs notice teams that nominate their most junior author, and review quality is a community reputation signal.

What SIGIR reviewers actually score

Across editions, IR reviewing culture weighs evaluation validity above almost everything. The informal reviewer checklist, reverse-engineered from the field's own methodology literature:

  1. Is the comparison fair? (Tuned baselines, same collections, same qrels, same metric implementations.)
  2. Are the differences real? (Paired significance tests, multiple-comparison handling, variance across seeds for neural systems.)
  3. Is the metric-task pairing sound? (nDCG@10 for ad-hoc ranking, recall for first-stage retrieval, judged@k when pools are shallow.)
  4. Does the mechanism explain the gain? (Ablations that isolate the claimed source.)
  5. Only then: how novel is the idea, and how broadly does it matter?

The consequence: at SIGIR a modest idea with airtight evaluation routinely outscores a bold idea with a shaky one. Papers written novelty-first, evidence-second read as misrouted ML-venue submissions.

Reviewer archetypes and what convinces each

  • The evaluation methodologist: reads §Experiments first; convinced by protocol symmetry and correct statistics; enraged by copied baseline numbers.
  • The systems pragmatist: asks what it costs; convinced by latency/index-size tables; suspicious of quality wins that ignore efficiency entirely.
  • The task veteran: knows the collection's quirks and every prior result on it; convinced by correct positioning against the collection's known ceiling effects.
  • The user-focused skeptic: asks whether the offline gain would survive contact with users; softened by honest scope statements about offline evaluation limits.

A submission cannot satisfy all four maximally in 9 pages; it must avoid offending any of them (the four standing objections: unfair tuning, no significance testing, metric mismatch, unexplained mechanism).

Show full SKILL.md (236 more words)Show less

Reading a decision packet

text
Decision-packet triage
----------------------
1. Sort claims-about-your-paper into: factual error / evidence gap / scope dispute.
2. Factual errors -> correction with coordinates (if a channel exists; see
   sigir-author-response).
3. Evidence gaps named by >=2 reviewers -> real; plan the experiment, not the reply.
4. Scope disputes ("should have tested on X") -> decide if X is load-bearing for
   the claim as written; narrow the claim or add X, never argue taste.
5. Extract every "the authors should ..." into the next-version checklist verbatim.

Reading scores like a chair

Without the cycle's exact scale (待核实), read shapes rather than numbers:

  • Converging middling scores with the same named gap = a real, fixable defect; the packet is a work order.
  • High variance (one champion, one detractor) = the paper's framing lets two archetypes read different papers; the fix is usually §1, not §5.
  • Uniform low confidence = the submission landed outside the track's reviewer pool; re-read sigir-topic-selection before blaming reviewers.
  • A long, detailed negative review is the most valuable object in the packet — it is the only reviewer who fully engaged; answer it with matching precision.

Confidentiality and conduct

  • Submissions are confidential under the ACM Peer Review Policy: reviewers must not share, reuse, or feed submissions to external services; authors likewise must not publicize reviewer text out of context.
  • Attempting to identify reviewers, or contacting suspected reviewers about a live submission, is a conduct violation with career-scale downside in a community this small — every senior IR researcher reviews for SIGIR eventually.
  • Suspected review misconduct (plagiarized review, LLM-generated boilerplate, conflict violations) goes to the track chairs through official channels only.

After the decision

  • Accept: conditional items (if any) become the first camera-ready tasks; see sigir-camera-ready.
  • Reject: the packet is a specification for the next venue; the SIGIR-family calendar (next SIGIR, SIGIR-AP, ECIR, CIKM, WSDM) means a well-revised paper waits months, not a year — see sigir-workflow for the routing calendar.

Output format

text
[Track machinery] group id / anonymity regime / nomination duty satisfied
[Standing-objection audit] tuning-fairness / significance / metric-match / mechanism: pass-risk each
[Archetype exposure] which reviewer archetype the paper most risks offending
[Packet triage] factual errors <n> / evidence gaps <n> / scope disputes <n>
[Confidentiality flags] none / <issue to raise with chairs>
[Next move] respond / revise-for-<venue> / camera-ready

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Files

Just SKILL.md in SIGIR-Skills/skills/sigir-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Sigir Review Process

What does Sigir Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how SIGIR evaluates submissions — the per-track OpenReview machinery, double-blind full/short review versus single-anonymous Resources review, the…. Sigir Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how SIGIR evaluates submissions — the per-track OpenReview machinery, double-blind full/short review versus single-anonymous Resources review, the PC-member nomination duty, what IR reviewers score (evaluation validity above novelty claims), the ACM Peer Review Policy layer, and how decisions land.

When should I use Sigir Review Process?

Sigir Review Process fits situations like: reasoning about how SIGIR evaluates submissions — the per-track OpenReview machinery; double-blind full/short review versus single-anonymous Resources review; the PC-member nomination duty; what IR reviewers score (evaluation validity above novelty claims).

How do I install Sigir Review Process in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Sigir Review Process in Codex?

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

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

What does Sigir Review Process need to run?

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

Does Sigir 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 Sigir 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 Sigir Review Process use?

Sigir 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 Sigir Review Process use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.5k 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 Sigir 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.