A skill your agent uses when running the final pre-submission preflight for The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) via the ScholarOne ManuscriptCentral portal — the 40-page total cap…

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Install Wber Submission

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill wber-submission -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills wber-submission --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/World-Bank-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/wber-submission .claude/skills/wber-submission && 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
wber-submission
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
879 words
Files
3
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when running the final pre-submission preflight for The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) via the ScholarOne ManuscriptCentral portal — the 40-page total cap…

  • Single-anonymized title page
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Process facts (检索于…, Preflight checklist and Last decisions before you…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Data availability statement with DOI

What it does

Wber Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) via the ScholarOne ManuscriptCentral portal — the 40-page total cap, single-anonymized title page, abstract/JEL, data availability statement with DOI, and house format. Final checks; it does not draft content.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files (for example `templates/checklist.md` and `templates/manuscript_template.md`).

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

  • Single-anonymized title page
  • Data availability statement with DOI

Example prompts

  • “/wber-submission”

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

Wber Submission loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 879 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~80
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.9k

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). 879 words, ~1,879 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/wber-submission/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
wber-submission
description
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) via the ScholarOne ManuscriptCentral portal — the 40-page total cap, single-anonymized title page, abstract/JEL, data availability statement with DOI, and house format. Final checks; it does not draft content.

Submission Preflight (wber-submission)

When to trigger

  • "Submitting tomorrow" — last check before pressing submit on ManuscriptCentral
  • Unsure which files and format rules the WBER portal expects
  • Confirming the 40-page cap, single-anonymized title page, and data availability statement are in order
  • Deciding between the full-length and short-format track

Process facts (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准)

  • WBER is published by Oxford University Press for the World Bank; submission is through the ScholarOne ManuscriptCentral portal (mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wber), as PDF.
  • Editors (verified 2026-06-22): Eric Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik (both Dartmouth College), with co-editors including Leora Klapper, David McKenzie, Emanuela Galasso, Norman Loayza, and Roy van der Weide. Re-verify on the OUP editorial-board page before naming an editor.
  • Length cap: standard submissions must not exceed 40 pages total, at 12-point font, double-spaced, Times New Roman (or similar), one-inch margins — and the 40 pages include all content subject to review: tables, figures, references, footnotes, and appendices. (Confirm the current limit on the OUP author guidelines.)
  • Review model: single-anonymized — only referees are anonymous. Author names and affiliations go on the title page. Do not blind the manuscript as if it were double-blind.
  • Data availability statement: required on the title page / author-affiliation footnote, with a persistent (preferably DOI) link to the data in a repository. Public release of data and code is a condition of publication.
  • Tracks: WBER publishes full-length articles and short-format papers (timely, policy-relevant, rigorous). Choose the track deliberately.
  • Editorial independence: consistency with World Bank policy plays no role in selection — do not pitch the paper as endorsing a Bank position.
  • Abstract length, exact JEL/keyword rules, fees/APC, and reference style are 待核实 — confirm on the live author guidelines before submitting.

Preflight checklist

Format & length
  • One PDF; font 12 point; double spaced; Times New Roman or similar; one-inch margins
  • ≤40 pages total, counting tables, figures, references, footnotes, and appendices
  • Figures/tables legible at print size; notes self-contained (source, estimator, clustering, units)
  • No significance asterisks; standard errors / confidence intervals reported
Title page & front matter
  • Author names + affiliations on the title page (single-anonymized — not blinded)
  • Data availability statement with a persistent DOI link in the affiliation footnote
  • Abstract present (word limit 待核实); keywords and JEL codes (rules 待核实)
  • Track chosen: full-length vs. short-format
Files & policy
  • Data + code package prepared (or restricted-data access path + synthetic extract documented)
  • Field instruments included for own-data studies
  • Cover letter names the development question, the magnitude, and "why WBER"
  • Confirmed not under review elsewhere; conflicts/funding disclosed; AI not listed as an author

Last decisions before you press submit

  • Track: full-length vs. short-format — confirm the paper's scope matches the track and you are not padding or amputating.
  • Cover letter: does it open with the development question and the policy decision, state the headline magnitude, name the identification in one line, and answer "why WBER, not JDE/World Development/Research Observer"?
  • Suggested reviewers (if the portal asks): span both the identification and policy archetypes; disclose genuine conflicts.
  • Disclosures: funding, conflicts, and the confirmation the paper is not under review elsewhere; AI is not an author.
  • Data availability: the statement and DOI link are in the manuscript, not just promised — public release of data and code is a condition of publication, so the deposit should exist before submission, not after acceptance.
  • Final read of the PDF: exhibits legible at print size, no broken cross-references, page count confirmed ≤40.
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Anti-patterns

  • Blinding the manuscript as if review were double-blind (it is single-anonymized; names go on the title page)
  • Exceeding 40 pages because appendices/references were assumed not to count — they do
  • Submitting with no data availability statement or no DOI repository link
  • Significance asterisks instead of standard errors / confidence intervals
  • Pitching the paper as aligned with World Bank policy (selection is independent)
  • Padding a clean single-result paper into a full article when the short-format track fits
  • A cover letter that restates the abstract and never says "why WBER"
  • Promising the data/code deposit "at acceptance" rather than having it ready at submission

Why papers get returned before review

The fastest WBER rejections rarely concern the science — they concern fit and format the editor screens in minutes: a rich-country setting (out of scope), a survey better suited to the Research Observer, an over-length manuscript that ignored the 40-page cap, a missing data availability statement, or a blinded manuscript that mistook the review model. Clearing this preflight does not guarantee review on the merits, but failing it guarantees a return without review. Treat the preflight as the gate that gets your paper to the referees, not as the review itself.

Worked preflight (illustrative)

A paper is "ready" at 46 pages because the authors assumed the appendix and references did not count toward the limit. The WBER preflight catches it: the 40-page cap includes tables, figures, references, footnotes, and appendices, so they move four secondary specification tables and a long data-construction note to a supplementary file, trimming the main PDF to 39 pages. They then notice the manuscript was blinded (author names stripped) as if for double-blind review — wrong model; WBER is single-anonymized, so they restore names and affiliations on the title page and add the data availability statement with the openICPSR DOI in the affiliation footnote. Asterisks in two tables are replaced with standard errors. Only then do they upload to ManuscriptCentral.

Output format

text
【Format】PDF / 12pt / double-spaced / 1in margins? [Y/N]
【Length】≤40 pages total incl. tables/figures/refs/appendices? [Y/N]
【Title page】author names + affiliations (single-anon)? [Y/N]
【DAS + DOI】data availability statement with persistent link? [Y/N]
【Abstract/JEL】present (limits 待核实)? [Y/N]
【Exhibits】no asterisks; SE/CI reported? [Y/N]
【Track】full-length / short-format chosen
【Cover letter】question + magnitude + why-WBER? [Y/N]
【Next step】submit via ScholarOne → wber-rebuttal after the 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

SKILL.md and 2 other files in World-Bank-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/wber-submission of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • templates/checklist.md
  • templates/manuscript_template.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Wber Submission

What does Wber Submission do?

A skill your agent uses when running the final pre-submission preflight for The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) via the ScholarOne ManuscriptCentral portal — the 40-page total cap…. Wber Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) via the ScholarOne ManuscriptCentral portal — the 40-page total cap, single-anonymized title page, abstract/JEL, data availability statement with DOI, and house format.

When should I use Wber Submission?

Wber Submission fits situations like: single-anonymized title page; data availability statement with DOI.

How do I install Wber Submission in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill wber-submission -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (World-Bank-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/wber-submission in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/wber-submission in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Wber Submission in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill wber-submission -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (World-Bank-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/wber-submission in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/wber-submission in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Wber Submission 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 wber-submission -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/wber-submission, .gemini/skills/wber-submission, .github/skills/wber-submission and .opencode/skills/wber-submission in your project.

What does Wber Submission need to run?

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

Does Wber Submission 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 Wber Submission 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 Wber Submission use?

Wber Submission 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 Wber Submission use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.5k 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 Wber Submission?

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.