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Routes European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscripts to the correct sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and manuscript type (Article, Comment/Reply, Data Brief).
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/european-sociological-review-skills:eursr-workflowThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
The orchestrator for an ESR submission. ESR is the **flagship quantitative-sociology journal** of the
The orchestrator for an ESR submission. ESR is the flagship quantitative-sociology journal of the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR), published by Oxford University Press. The router's first job is to confirm the work is a rigorous quantitative contribution — usually comparative and/or longitudinal — and to send the user to the matching skill for their stage.
eursr-rebuttal)| Situation | Type | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Full quantitative study, comparative/longitudinal | Article (~8,000 words incl. endnotes + references) | the main pipeline below |
| Critique of / reply to a published ESR piece | Comment/Reply | tight scope; engage the original directly |
| Showcasing a data source for the community | Data Brief | describe design/sampling/content + sociological potential |
Then confirm the method shape, because design and analysis advice turn on it: cross-national comparative · panel/longitudinal · multilevel · event-history · causal-inference · SEM/measurement.
Idea / fit? → eursr-topic-selection
Where does it sit in the field? → eursr-literature-positioning
What's the theoretical argument? → eursr-theory-building
Is the comparative/panel design sound? → eursr-research-design
Are the models defensible? → eursr-data-analysis
Are the exhibits clear? → eursr-tables-figures
Does it read in ESR house style? → eursr-writing-style
Replication package + DAS ready? → eursr-transparency-and-data
How will it be judged? → eursr-review-process
Ready to submit? → eursr-submission
Got an R&R / decision? → eursr-rebuttal
topic-selection → literature-positioning → theory-building → research-design → data-analysis → tables-figures → writing-style → transparency-and-data → review-process → submission → rebuttal
Iterate: comparative and multilevel papers loop theory ↔ design ↔ analysis as the cross-national data dictate.
ESR rewards a tight pairing of a portable sociological mechanism with a quantitative design that defeats the leading confound. Most symptoms map cleanly to one sub-skill — use this lookup before defaulting to the linear order.
| Symptom you arrive with | Likely root | Route to |
|---|---|---|
| "A reader says it's just one-country description" | fit / comparative reach | eursr-topic-selection |
| "Reviewer says I missed the European literature" | cross-national positioning | eursr-literature-positioning |
| "It's called atheoretical / variable-driven" | no portable mechanism | eursr-theory-building |
| "Reviewer doubts the comparative or causal logic" | design | eursr-research-design |
| "They want robustness / the right level of clustering" | analysis | eursr-data-analysis |
| "An exhibit is unclear" | exhibits | eursr-tables-figures |
| "Over 8,000 words / reads heavy" | prose + length | eursr-writing-style |
| "Where is the replication package?" | transparency mandate | eursr-transparency-and-data |
| "What will reviewers want?" | expectations | eursr-review-process |
| "Submitting tomorrow" | preflight | eursr-submission |
| "Got an R&R" | response letter | eursr-rebuttal |
A user arrives mid-project with a cross-national education study and a vague worry.
User: "I have ESS data for 20 countries and good multilevel models, but a colleague says it's
'just a country-comparison, not an ESR contribution.'"
Router read: the worry is theoretical portability, not data → start at eursr-theory-building (name the
macro–micro mechanism the country variation identifies), then eursr-literature-positioning (the live
comparative debate), then eursr-research-design (what the cross-national variation lets you rule out).
Type: full quantitative study → Article (~8,000 words incl. references), not a Comment.
Then: eursr-data-analysis (multilevel SEs, country-level df) → eursr-tables-figures →
eursr-transparency-and-data (replication package early, since the work is statistical).
The router resists the linear default and sends the comparative paper to theory and positioning first, where its fit risk actually lives.
【Stage】idea / positioning / theory / design / analysis / exhibits / writing / transparency / review / submit / rebut
【Type】Article / Comment-Reply / Data-Brief
【Method shape】comparative / panel / multilevel / event-history / causal / SEM
【Route to】eursr-<skill>
【Why】one line
【Then】the next skill after that
../../resources/external_tools.md — European data (ESS / EU-SILC / SOEP / EVS) + software by method../../resources/official-source-map.md — official ESR / OUP / ECSR URLs behind every fact in this packnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin european-sociological-review-skillsGuides assessment of whether a sociology project fits the European Sociological Review (ESR) and which article type to write (Article, Comment/Reply, Data Brief).
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