journal-fit

journal-fit is a skill for Claude Code from matthewdigiuseppe/MStack. It costs 58 tokens per session (893 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A journal-selection review that compares possible places to submit an academic paper. It scores journals on impact, subject fit, openness to the paper's methods, length limits, review speed, and risk of rejection without review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a finished paper needs a target journal, a realistic option, and a backup. It can also check recent papers, author rules, and review information before ranking candidates.
Why use it?
It helps match the paper with a suitable journal and prepares fallback choices. This makes submission planning more deliberate than choosing a journal by reputation alone.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the mstack plugin — 38 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/matthewdigiuseppe/mstack/journal-fit
Any agent
npx skills add matthewdigiuseppe/MStack --skill journal-fit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/matthewdigiuseppe/MStack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 893 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00058 $0.00893
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00447
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00089

Measured 6d ago against content hash 6bd95dd4a6ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

journal-fit 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 6d 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.

skills/journal-fit/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.

/mstack:journal-fit

Stage: submit Voice: editor

When to invoke

The manuscript is submission-ready (passed /mstack:results-audit, /mstack:coauthor-review, /mstack:referee-mock). You need to pick a journal — and a backup, and a backup's backup.

Procedure

  1. Load. Abstract from paper/sections/abstract.tex, contribution from .mstack/research-question.md, lit-positioning from .mstack/lit-map.md.

  2. Generate a candidate set of 6–8 journals. Mix of:

    • Aspirational (top-tier general: APSR, AJPS, JOP / IO, BJPS).
    • Aspirational field (top-tier IPE / IR / comparative).
    • Realistic field (mid-tier with good fit).
    • Specialty (a journal where the topic is core).
    • Backup (publishes well, lower desk-reject risk).
  3. For each candidate, score on a fixed grid. Use WebSearch / WebFetch to look up recent volumes if helpful (look for: published papers similar to the user's; word limits; review timelines).

    Dimension Scale Notes
    Impact 1–5 Generalist / specialist matters; cite-count is a noisy proxy.
    Fit (recent papers in this conversation) 1–5 If the journal hasn't published in this conversation in 5 years, fit is low.
    Editor receptivity to method 1–5 Some journals reject quasi-experimental on principle; some prefer it.
    Word limit fit 1–5 Does the paper's actual length fit the journal's hard cap?
    Review turnaround 1–5 Median time from submission to first decision (use journal's posted data when available).
    Desk-reject risk 1–5 (5 = low risk) Editor's stated criteria for desk reject.
    Open-access / data policy note Does it require pre-acceptance OA? Restricted-data policy?
  4. Tier the top 3.

    • Reach — highest impact among candidates with fit ≥ 3.
    • Realistic — highest fit × low desk-reject risk × decent impact.
    • Backup — high probability of acceptance; preserves time-to-publication.
  5. Write the comparison table to .mstack/journal-fit-<YYYY-MM-DD>.md.

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. 6d ago First seen · 72 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 6bd95dd4a6ec

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journal-fit is a skill published in the GitHub repository matthewdigiuseppe/MStack (14 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 893 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-30.

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