A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how WSDM reviews and decides papers - the hybrid single/double-blind architecture with Associate-Chair metadata visibility, at-least-three PC reviews…

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Install Wsdm Review Process

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills wsdm-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/WSDM-Skills/skills/wsdm-review-process .claude/skills/wsdm-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
wsdm-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
753 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 WSDM reviews and decides papers - the hybrid single/double-blind architecture with Associate-Chair metadata visibility, at-least-three PC reviews…

  • Reasoning about how WSDM reviews and decides papers - the hybrid single/double-blind architecture with Associate-Chair metadata visibility
  • SKILL.md covers The pipeline, Who sees what: the…, Reading the reviewer pool and No rebuttal: decision dynamics, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • At-least-three PC reviews plus senior PC assessment

What it does

Wsdm Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how WSDM reviews and decides papers - the hybrid single/double-blind architecture with Associate-Chair metadata visibility, at-least-three PC reviews plus senior PC assessment, the absence of a rebuttal phase, the August-to-October window, and what ~17% selectivity at a single-track venue implies.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k 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

  • Reasoning about how WSDM reviews and decides papers - the hybrid single/double-blind architecture with Associate-Chair metadata visibility
  • At-least-three PC reviews plus senior PC assessment
  • The absence of a rebuttal phase
  • The August-to-October window

Example prompts

  • “/wsdm-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

Wsdm Review Process loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 86 tokens; SKILL.md has 753 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
~1.7k

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). 753 words, ~1,705 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/wsdm-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
wsdm-review-process
description
Use when reasoning about how WSDM reviews and decides papers - the hybrid single/double-blind architecture with Associate-Chair metadata visibility, at-least-three PC reviews plus senior PC assessment, the absence of a rebuttal phase, the August-to-October window, and what ~17% selectivity at a single-track venue implies.

WSDM Review Process

Model the machinery that turns an August submission into an October decision. Understanding it changes writing decisions months earlier, because WSDM's process has two properties that most neighboring venues lack: authors never get to reply, and the venue's blinding design is unusually explicit about who sees what. Process details are re-set by each edition's chairs - the 2026-cycle anchors below are for calibration, not prediction.

The pipeline

text
Aug 7   abstract registered      -> bidding/assignment signal for the PC
Aug 14  full paper (AoE)         -> desk screening (format, scope, anonymity,
                                     ethics section present)
Aug-Oct at least 3 PC reviews    -> written independently; no author contact
        + senior PC (SPC)        -> meta-assessment, consensus-building
        Associate Chairs         -> see metadata incl. authorship, manage COI
Oct 23  notification (2026 anchor)
        camera-ready + ACM production (dates 待核实 per edition)
Feb     single-track conference

Roughly ten weeks from paper to decision - among the fastest of the major mining venues, which is precisely why there is no room for a rebuttal round.

Who sees what: the hybrid-blind design

The 2025 and 2026 CFPs describe "a combination of single-blind reviewing and double-blind reviewing": reviewers and SPCs get anonymized PDFs; Associate Chairs see submission metadata, including authorship, to detect undisclosed conflicts. Implications for authors:

  • Your scientific evaluators judge the anonymized artifact only. All the self-containment and anonymization discipline of wsdm-submission exists for their benefit.
  • The metadata layer is an integrity mechanism, not a reputational one - it does not transmit prestige to the people scoring you.
  • This design is historically literate: WSDM 2017 hosted the controlled experiment (Tomkins, Zhang & Heavlin, published in PNAS 2017) in which single-blind reviewers bid more on and rated more favorably the papers of famous authors and top institutions. The venue then engineered a process that keeps scoring blind while still policing conflicts. Expect chairs to take anonymity breaches personally; the policy is theirs by conviction.

Reading the reviewer pool

WSDM's PC blends academic IR/mining researchers with industry scientists from search, recommendation, and ads groups - the conference was founded as, and markets itself as, the venue where "practical yet principled" work lives. Consequences:

ReaderWhat convinces themWhat loses them
Academic IR/mining reviewerClean formalization, bias-aware offline evaluation, strong recent baselinesUndefined novelty over last year's WSDM/SIGIR papers
Industry reviewerData realism, latency/cost awareness, deployment plausibilityToy datasets presented as web-scale; ignoring serving constraints
SPC (writes the meta-review)Consistency across claims, evidence, limitationsOne overclaimed sentence that a reviewer flags and the paper never defends

Write for the intersection: every headline claim should survive both the "is it sound?" and the "would it survive contact with a platform?" reads.

No rebuttal: decision dynamics

With no author input after submission, disagreement resolution happens between reviewers and the SPC. Practical consequences:

  • A single confident negative review carries more terminal weight than at rebuttal venues, because you cannot dilute it with a reply. The counter is preemptive: the objection-inventory method in wsdm-author-response.
  • Borderline papers live or die on the SPC's reading of whether weaknesses are fixable presentation issues or structural flaws. Make fixability visible: explicit limitation paragraphs signal self-awareness and give the SPC language to defend the paper.
  • Reviews arrive as feedback for the next venue. Their consensus items are the revision contract; their misreadings are your ambiguity bugs.
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Decoding review language after notification

Because no dialogue ever occurred, WSDM reviews compress judgments into stock phrases. A translation layer for triage (heuristics, not officialdom):

  • "The evaluation does not control for..." - a validity-quadrant hit; at this venue this is usually the decisive sentence in the packet.
  • "The contribution is incremental over [WSDM/SIGIR paper]" - a lineage positioning failure more often than a novelty failure; check whether your contrast sentence for that exact paper existed (wsdm-related-work).
  • "Unclear whether this would work in practice" - the industry read rejected the setting's realism; the fix is data-regime honesty, not more benchmarks.
  • "Well written but I am not convinced of the significance" - the choose-this-paper test failed; the work may be short-track shaped.
  • Three lukewarm-positive reviews and a rejection - normal at one-in-six selectivity with fixed program capacity; read the SPC's meta-review for the actual ranking rationale before blaming any reviewer.

Selectivity arithmetic

2025 anchor: more than 600 submissions, just over 100 acceptances (~16-17%). Single-track scheduling caps how many talks the program can hold, so acceptance volume does not stretch with submission growth the way multi-track venues absorb it. Strategic readings:

  • "Solid but unremarkable" occupies the rejection region: at one-in-six, papers need a reason to be chosen, not merely no reason to be rejected.
  • The short-paper track (new since 2026) is the pressure valve for focused contributions that cannot win a long-paper slot on breadth.
  • Deadlines are annual: a rejection costs twelve months at this venue, which makes the pre-submission adversarial pass cheap by comparison.
  • Selectivity plus a compact PC also means repeat encounters: the reviewer pool sees your resubmission next year. Papers that visibly absorbed last year's reviews start ahead; papers that ignored them start behind zero.

Output format

text
[Cycle model] deadlines / notification / process confirmed from current CFP: <list + gaps>
[Blinding] hybrid design implications applied to this paper: <notes>
[Pool coverage] academic read / industry read / SPC read: convinced or at-risk
[Terminal-review risk] strongest single objection with no in-PDF answer: <item>
[Selectivity call] long paper / short paper / different venue, with reason

© 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 WSDM-Skills/skills/wsdm-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Wsdm Review Process

What does Wsdm Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how WSDM reviews and decides papers - the hybrid single/double-blind architecture with Associate-Chair metadata visibility, at-least-three PC reviews…. Wsdm Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how WSDM reviews and decides papers - the hybrid single/double-blind architecture with Associate-Chair metadata visibility, at-least-three PC reviews plus senior PC assessment, the absence of a rebuttal phase, the August-to-October window, and what ~17% selectivity at a single-track venue implies.

When should I use Wsdm Review Process?

Wsdm Review Process fits situations like: reasoning about how WSDM reviews and decides papers - the hybrid single/double-blind architecture with Associate-Chair metadata visibility; at-least-three PC reviews plus senior PC assessment; the absence of a rebuttal phase; the August-to-October window.

How do I install Wsdm Review Process in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Wsdm Review Process in Codex?

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

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

What does Wsdm Review Process need to run?

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

Does Wsdm 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 Wsdm 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 Wsdm Review Process use?

Wsdm 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 Wsdm Review Process use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.8k 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 Wsdm 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.

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