aejmic-referee-strategy

aejmic-referee-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,181 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-submission guide for anticipating referee objections to an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics manuscript. Referees are expert reviewers who assess whether the result is correct, sufficiently general, clearly explained, and suitable for the journal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test the contribution, proofs, assumptions, generality, exposition, journal fit, JEL classifications, and likely reasons for rejection.
Why use it?
It exposes likely weaknesses before submission, including unclear contributions, fragile proofs, narrow scope, or poor framing. It also helps assess whether the paper fits the journal and its broad microeconomics readership.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the aej-microeconomics-skills plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to stress-test the contribution, proofs, assumptions, generality, exposition, journal fit, JEL classifications, and likely reasons for rejection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/aejmic-referee-strategy
About the project

Awesome Journal Skills is a collection of agent skill packs tailored to hundreds of academic journals across fields including economics, social science, medicine, science, and engineering. Researchers use the packs for tasks such as choosing topics, designing empirical strategies, preparing tables and figures, submitting papers, and responding to reviewers. The catalogue entries are the project's journal-specific skills and related plugins.

brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills · 1,289 stars · on GitHub · copaper.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmic-referee-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aej-microeconomics-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,181 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.01181
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00472
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00118

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5e4369a8b7a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aejmic-referee-strategy scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

AEJ-Microeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmic-referee-strategy/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Referee Strategy (aejmic-referee-strategy)

When to trigger

  • Before submission, to stress-test the paper against the objections experts will raise
  • Deciding whether the contribution clears the desk-reject bar
  • Choosing JEL codes / framing that route the paper to the right co-editor
  • Unsure what the AEJ: Micro review process looks like

The AEJ: Micro process (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准)

  • AEJ: Micro uses single-blind review via the AEA submission system: the referee sees the author, but referees are anonymous to authors. There is no anonymization burden — reputation is visible, so the paper must stand on rigor.
  • There is a submission fee (AEA member $200 high-income / $100 middle / $0 low; nonmember higher — 检索于 2026-06,volatile), and JEL classification per AEA practice helps route the paper to the right co-editor and expert referees.
  • Decisions run the usual ladder: desk reject → reject after review → R&R (minor/major) → accept. Theory referees verify proofs; a flawed or non-tight proof is a common reject reason.
  • Re-confirm fee, timelines, and co-editor list on the official AEA AEJ: Micro page (see resources/official-source-map.md).

Objections AEJ: Micro referees actually raise — and the pre-emption

Likely objection Pre-empt it by (skill)
"The result is a knife-edge artifact of assumption A." Name the load-bearing assumption; show necessity / a counterexample on failure (aejmic-identification)
"This is too specialized / maximal-generality for AEJ: Micro." Re-frame the broad-interest message; cut generality that hides it (aejmic-topic-selection, aejmic-theory-model)
"How does this differ from [closest result]?" State the theorem-relative delta in one sentence (aejmic-literature-positioning)
"Does it survive [a continuum / asymmetry / perturbation]?" Provide the earned extension or a clean negative result (aejmic-robustness)
"A step in the proof is asserted, not shown." Complete the lemma scaffolding; self-contained proofs (aejmic-replication-package)
"The model is overloaded; the mechanism is invisible." Reduce to the minimal environment; lead with intuition (aejmic-theory-model, aejmic-writing-style)
"This is an empirical paper, not theory." Either restore the theoretical contribution or redirect to AEJ: Applied (aejmic-topic-selection)
(Applied) "Identification / inference is shaky; asterisks used." Branch B/C identification; SEs not asterisks (aejmic-identification, aejmic-tables-figures)

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 72 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5e4369a8b7a5

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aejmic-referee-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills (1,289 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,181 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-15.

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