From aerj-skills
Routes AERJ manuscript authors to the right sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and field-wide education-research fit. Dispatches only.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/aerj-skills:aerj-workflowThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
The orchestrator for an AERJ submission. Figure out the stage and the manuscript's **dominant education
The orchestrator for an AERJ submission. Figure out the stage and the manuscript's dominant education research lens, then send the user to the matching skill. AERJ is a field-wide generalist journal; the router's first job is to make sure the paper is pitched to the whole field, not to a single subfield. The old SIA/TLHD section split ended for new manuscripts in 2015.
aerj-rebuttal)| Situation | Dominant lens | Then |
|---|---|---|
| Policy, governance, equity, organizations, institutions | Policy / institutional / organizational | normal pipeline below |
| Teaching, learning, instruction, human development | Teaching / learning / development | normal pipeline below |
| Sits across lenses | name the dominant framing | explain why the contribution travels across the field |
The lens is about topic and framing, not method. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods work can all fit if the education-research contribution is broad enough.
Idea / fit / field-wide lens? → aerj-topic-selection
Where does it sit in the field? → aerj-literature-positioning
What frames the contribution? → aerj-theory-and-framework
Is the design defensible? → aerj-research-design
Are the analyses sound? → aerj-data-analysis
Are the exhibits clear? → aerj-tables-figures
Does it read for the field? → aerj-writing-style
Reporting standards & data? → aerj-transparency-and-data-policy
How will it be judged? → aerj-review-process
Ready to submit? → aerj-submission
Got an R&R / decision? → aerj-rebuttal
topic-selection → literature-positioning → theory-and-framework → research-design → data-analysis → tables-figures → writing-style → transparency-and-data-policy → review-process → submission → rebuttal
Iterate: most papers loop framework ↔ design ↔ analysis several times before writing-style.
The router's value is catching the failure that kills a paper at this stage before it compounds. Each row pairs the lifecycle stage with the AERJ-specific risk and where to send the user.
| Stage | The AERJ-specific risk here | Route to |
|---|---|---|
| Idea | Subfield-only scope; unclear AERJ lens | aerj-topic-selection |
| Positioning | Talks to insiders, not the field | aerj-literature-positioning |
| Framework | Under-theorized; frame does no work | aerj-theory-and-framework |
| Design | Method-claim mismatch across quant/qual/mixed | aerj-research-design |
| Analysis | Nesting ignored; warrant not shown | aerj-data-analysis |
| Exhibits | Not self-contained; non-APA; not masked | aerj-tables-figures |
| Writing | Jargon untranslated; over-claiming | aerj-writing-style |
| Transparency | Reporting standard unmet; no data plan | aerj-transparency-and-data-policy |
| Decision | Treating R&R as acceptance | aerj-rebuttal |
A team arrives with a finished mixed-methods study of a districtwide grading reform and asks
"are we ready to submit?" The router does not jump to submission. It first checks the dominant lens
(the institutional reform framing needs to travel beyond one district), then surfaces that the
qualitative strand and the illustrative 0.15 SD achievement estimate were never integrated — an
AERJ referee will flag two stapled papers. So the route is aerj-research-design → aerj-data-analysis for the joint
display before aerj-submission. Sequencing the integration fix first saves a likely review cycle.
【Stage】idea / positioning / framework / design / analysis / exhibits / writing / transparency / review / submit / rebut
【Dominant lens】policy/institutional / teaching-learning / development / cross-cutting (and why)
【Route to】aerj-<skill>
【Why】one line
【Then】the next skill after that
../../resources/external_tools.md — education-research data + software by method../../resources/official-source-map.md — official AERJ URLs behind every fact in this packnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin aerj-skillsUnderstand how AERJ evaluates manuscripts during masked peer review, desk screening, and decision categories.
Routes AJS manuscript workflows to the correct sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and piece type (research article, Comment/Reply, book-review response). Entry point for the AJS submission process.
Routes Journal of Educational Psychology manuscript tasks by lifecycle stage, dispatching to sub-skills for topic selection, study design, data analysis, writing, open science, and rebuttal.