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Routes JAP manuscript workflow by article type and lifecycle stage, ensuring I-O theoretical contribution and measurement rigor are addressed early.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/journal-of-applied-psychology-skills:joap-workflowThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
The orchestrator for a JAP submission. JAP is the **APA flagship of industrial-organizational (I-O)
The orchestrator for a JAP submission. JAP is the APA flagship of industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology, and it accepts almost nothing on rigor alone: a paper must make a theoretical contribution to I-O science and clear a high bar on construct validity, design, and measurement. The router makes sure both gates are addressed early, then sends you to the matching skill.
joap-rebuttal)| Situation | Type | Route note |
|---|---|---|
| Full programmatic empirical contribution | Feature Article | main pipeline below; length commensurate with contribution |
| Focused, shorter empirical contribution | Research Report | tighter page budget (待核实 exact cap); often a multi-study package |
| New conceptual/theory contribution, no new data | Theory-development article | joap-theory-and-hypotheses is the spine; design/analysis lighter |
| Cumulative synthesis of an effect | Integrative review / meta-analysis | joap-data-analysis (meta-analytic methods) + transparency for coding |
| Qualitative I-O contribution | Qualitative research | joap-study-design (trustworthiness) + joap-writing-style |
JAP weighs theory and measurement together. A clean field study with no theoretical advance, and an elegant model with weak measurement, are both common desk rejects — confirm current article types and any length caps on the official APA page.
Idea / fit for I-O science? → joap-topic-selection
Theory + hypotheses (model first)? → joap-theory-and-hypotheses
Where does it sit in the field? → joap-literature-positioning
Design / measurement / CMV / nesting? → joap-study-design
SEM / HLM / mediation / meta sound? → joap-data-analysis
Exhibits (APA, path/CFA, HLM tables)? → joap-tables-figures
Fits APA style + length? → joap-writing-style
Data/materials/code + TOP + prereg? → joap-open-science-and-transparency
How will masked reviewers judge it? → joap-review-process
Ready to submit (Editorial Manager)? → joap-submission
Got an R&R / decision? → joap-rebuttal
topic-selection → theory-and-hypotheses → literature-positioning → study-design → data-analysis → tables-figures → writing-style → open-science-and-transparency → review-process → submission → rebuttal
Theory comes before literature positioning here on purpose: JAP wants the theoretical mechanism
fixed first, then the literature marshaled to show why that mechanism is new. For meta-analyses and
theory-development articles the spine shifts — pull data-analysis (meta) or theory-and-hypotheses
(theory) forward.
A team has a two-wave field study (N = 612 employees nested in 74 teams) testing whether servant leadership raises team performance via psychological safety, plus a lab experiment for causal identification. The router walks them:
Type: Feature Article (programmatic; field + experiment, multilevel + mediation).
Entry: not idea-stage; theory and data exist → start at theory-and-hypotheses
to lock the model, then design/analysis.
Route: theory-and-hypotheses (mechanism + multilevel hypotheses)
→ study-design (CMV, nesting, temporal separation) → data-analysis
(multilevel SEM mediation, ICC, indirect-effect CIs)
→ tables-figures (path diagram + HLM table) → writing-style
→ open-science-and-transparency (TOP, data/code, prereg of the lab study)
→ review-process → submission ; on R&R → rebuttal.
Flag: The cross-level mediation needs a 1-1-2 / 2-2-2 design statement and a
CMV remedy declared up front, or Reviewer 2 will lead with it.
| What the author says | Stage | Route to |
|---|---|---|
| "Is this even right for JAP?" | fit | joap-topic-selection |
| "Reviewers say no theoretical contribution" | theory | joap-theory-and-hypotheses |
| "Same-source self-report — common method bias?" | design | joap-study-design |
| "My mediation/HLM is questioned" | analysis | joap-data-analysis |
| "Where do I put data and code?" | transparency | joap-open-science-and-transparency |
| "I have an R&R from three reviewers" | revision | joap-rebuttal |
joap-data-analysis when the deeper problem is that no theoretical
contribution has been articulated — JAP rejects rigorous-but-atheoretical work; fix theory first.joap-study-design until after data: common-method variance, temporal separation, and
nesting are design decisions; you cannot fully repair them at the analysis stage.joap-open-science-and-transparency as a formality — JAP holds submissions to the TOP
framework; deposits and statements should be built early, not promised at acceptance.【Stage】idea / theory / positioning / design / analysis / exhibits / writing / transparency / review / submit / rebut
【Type】Feature Article / Research Report / theory-development / integrative review / qualitative / meta-analysis
【Route to】joap-<skill>
【Why】one line
【Then】the next skill after that
../../resources/external_tools.md — SEM/HLM/meta-analysis software, preregistration, repositories, APA tooling../../resources/official-source-map.md — official APA Journal of Applied Psychology URLs behind every fact in this packnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin journal-of-applied-psychology-skillsEvaluates whether an I-O / applied psychology project fits the Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) and which article type to target, based on theoretical contribution, measurement rigor, and cumulative footing.
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