From ajps-skills
Explains AJPS double-blind peer review, desk screening, decision categories, and post-acceptance verification to help shape a paper for submission.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/ajps-skills:ajps-review-processThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Knowing how AJPS screens, decides, and then **verifies** lets you pre-empt failure modes before
Knowing how AJPS screens, decides, and then verifies lets you pre-empt failure modes before
submitting. AJPS is double-blind, published by Wiley for the MPSA, and pairs ordinary peer review
with a post-acceptance third-party verification step that no in-house-only journal has (see
ajps-replication-and-verification).
ajps-submission).ajps-replication-and-verification).| Stage | Decision-maker | Pass condition |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial screen | Editorial team | Fit, contribution, methods clear enough to send out |
| External review | Expert reviewers | Identification supports the claim; contribution generalizes |
| Decision | Editor (adjudicating reviewers) | Reject / R&R / (rare) accept |
| Post-acceptance | Independent verifier | Deposited code reproduces the main-text numbers |
A close-election RD on incumbency clears the screen because the contribution and payoff are explicit early. At external review one referee flags "overclaims causality"; because the empirical claim was scoped to a local effect at the threshold and matched to the design, the panel is satisfied and returns an R&R rather than a reject. After acceptance, the verifier re-runs the deposited code and confirms the +6-point estimate (illustrative) in the main text — publication proceeds only once that match is confirmed.
Calibration anchor: AJPS pairs ordinary double-blind review with a post-acceptance third-party verification that gates publication; confirm submission-type and portal details against the journal's live guidelines.
Run this as a concrete capability pass. First lock the political theory, design leverage, measurement validity, and scope condition; then test whether the manuscript addresses political-science reviewers who expect tight theory, transparent design, and a contribution that travels across political settings.
claim / evidence / blocker / next edit rows so the next pass can patch the manuscript directly.resources/official-source-map.md for live-check items that could change the recommendation.【Type fit】Article / Research Note (methodology|meta-analysis) / Correspondence — correct? [Y/N]
【Contribution】generalizable payoff explicit and early? [Y/N]
【Claim vs design】empirical claim matches identification? [Y/N]
【Ethics/IRB】documentation ready? [Y/N]
【Realistic outcome】reject / R&R / (rare) accept
【After accept】verification re-run will match? [Y/N]
【Next】ajps-submission (or ajps-rebuttal if decided)
../../resources/official-source-map.md — double-blind review, submission types, and verification-after-acceptancenpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin ajps-skillsExplains APSR's double-anonymous review process, desk-rejection grounds, decision categories, and Registered Reports route to help authors pre-empt failure modes before submitting.
Explains the double-blind review, desk screening, efficient review process, and replicability check for The Journal of Politics (JOP). Helps shape manuscripts to pass each stage.
Routes AJPS manuscript work to the correct sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and submission type (Article, Research Note, Correspondence). Entry point for AJPS submissions.