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.
npx skills add muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills --skill journal-selectiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/journal-selection)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/journal-selection"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/journal-selection/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/journal-selection"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/journal-selection.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.02899 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.01450 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00580 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00290 |
Grade A, and why
journal-selection 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Journal Selection
Choosing the right journal is one of the most consequential decisions in the publication process. A well-matched submission reaches the right audience quickly; a poor match wastes months in desk rejection or misaligned review.
Journal Metrics — What They Measure and Their Limits
| Metric | Publisher | What It Measures | Key Limitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impact Factor (IF) | Clarivate / JCR | Mean citations in 2 years to articles published in prior 2 years | Skewed by high-citation outliers; only for JCR-indexed journals |
| CiteScore | Elsevier / Scopus | Mean citations over 4 years (broader window) | Limited to Scopus-indexed journals |
| SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) | SCImago | Weighted citation prestige (citing journal quality matters) | Free; broader coverage; less prestigious recognition than IF |
| SNIP | Scopus | Contextualises citation impact by field citation norms | Corrects for field differences in citation behaviour |
| h5-index | Google Scholar Metrics | h-index calculated over last 5 complete years | Covers grey literature and non-indexed journals |
| Eigenfactor | Eigenfactor.org | Influence based on total citation network (like PageRank) | Less known; available in JCR |
| Acceptance Rate | Published by some journals | % of submitted manuscripts accepted | Inversely correlated with prestige for many fields |
Critical caveats:
- Metrics vary dramatically by discipline — an IF of 3.0 is excellent in humanities, average in biology, and low in biochemistry
- Do NOT compare IF across disciplines
- Many high-quality journals are not indexed (new journals, regional journals) — absence from JCR does not mean predatory
- Metrics should inform, not solely determine, your decision
Open Access Models
| Model | Description | Who Pays | When to Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold OA | Article immediately freely available; published in fully OA journal | Author (APC) or funder | When funder mandates immediate OA; budget available |
| Green OA | Author self-archives accepted manuscript in repository | Free for author | When OA required but no APC budget; check embargo period |
| Diamond OA | Fully OA journal with no APC — funded by institutions or societies | No one (subsidised) | Best option when available; growing in number |
| Hybrid | Subscription journal with OA option for individual articles | Author pays APC | When journal requires subscription but OA mandate applies |
| Bronze | Free to read but without open licence — can be revoked | Publisher funded | Least preferred; not truly open access |
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 239 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 83f0afb9a1e6
journal-selection is a skill published in the GitHub repository muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,899 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 2026-08-31.
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