From conbio-skills
Explains Conservation Biology's double-blind peer review process: editorial screening, decision categories, and Registered Reports route. Helps prepare manuscripts to survive review.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/conbio-skills:conbio-review-processThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Knowing how *Conservation Biology* screens and decides lets you pre-empt the failure modes before
Knowing how Conservation Biology screens and decides lets you pre-empt the failure modes before submitting. The journal is double-blind (adopted October 2014) and screens at the desk for scope, novelty, and conservation relevance before external review.
conbio-submission). Adopted to reduce intentional and
unintentional bias and broaden participation.conbio-conservation-relevance-and-implications).Treat this skill as an executable review pass, not a prose hint. First lock the species/system threat, conservation decision, and uncertainty relevant to action; then judge whether the current manuscript answers the venue's real reader: conservation-science reviewers who ask whether evidence changes biodiversity, management, or policy action.
claim / evidence / risk / manuscript location rows, so the next agent can edit rather than rediscover the issue.resources/official-source-map.md has been checked for upload-week rules and the manuscript has one concrete fix for the largest venue-specific risk.【Desk-rejection check】scope / relevance / novelty / completeness / ethics — red flags?
【Conservation relevance】explicit and transferable? [Y/N]
【Literature engaged】incl. cross-disciplinary? [Y/N]
【Route】standard vs Registered Reports (Stage 1)
【Realistic outcome】reject / major-minor revision / (rare) accept
【Next】conbio-submission (or conbio-revision-and-rebuttal if decided)
../../resources/official-source-map.md — double-blind policy, reviewer guidelines, decision categories, Registered Reportsnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin conbio-skillsExplains Global Change Biology's manuscript evaluation pipeline: desk-rejection triggers, peer-review criteria, and decision categories. Helps researchers scope and frame submissions to pass editorial screening.
Evaluates manuscript fit, framing, method-evidence bar, house style, and desk-reject criteria for Ecology Letters (Ecol Lett), a high-impact short-format ecology journal.
Helps determine if a project fits Conservation Biology journal criteria and which article type to target, focusing on novelty, transferability, and direct conservation relevance.