proghg-workflow

PiHG Workflow Router (proghg-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It tells you which proghg- skill to use at the current stage* of a review essay, theoretical/conceptual intervention, or progress report aimed at Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) — SAGE's flagship review and state-of-the-art journal in human geography, founded 1977 (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). PiHG does not publish original empirical studies or detailed cases. It publishes critical, theoretically-informed reviews of current philosophical, conceptual, theoretical, topical, methodological, ethical, and political debates, plus the famous commissioned progress reports that survey the development of subfields (economic, urban, political, cultural, feminist, development, more-than-human geographies). So the lifecycle is not "design → identify → estimate → defend"; it is scope a synthesis-worthy debate → enter via commission or submission → read the subfield critically → impose a conceptual organizing argument → engage traditions fairly and reflexively → land the PiHG voice → clear SAGE peer review → revise.

Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as PiHG and the artefact as a critical review / conceptual intervention, not a primary-research paper. Operational tells that you are at PiHG and not a sibling: the work appraises and reframes a body of scholarship rather than reporting its own findings; PiHG explicitly does not publish empirical results or detailed case studies (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准); there is no identification strategy and no replication package of your own data (you read others' work critically); the contribution is a conceptual argument about a subfield's trajectory — where it is and where it should go — not a new estimate. If the user actually has original data and results, they want a primary-research outlet (Annals of the AAG, Transactions of the IBG, an empirical area journal), not PiHG — say so.

When to trigger

• The user asks "what should I do next?" on a review essay, theory piece, or progress report
• A draft reads like a literature summary and needs a conceptual argument
• Work is ping-ponging between coverage, framing, balance, and the intake route
• A PiHG editor/referee letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode

Routing table

Current symptom	Next skill
Unsure the debate is review-worthy / conceptually significant enough for PiHG	proghg-topic-selection
Need to pitch a review, or you are writing a commissioned progress report	proghg-proposal-and-commissioning
Reading is unsystematic; you fear missing a tradition or key intervention	proghg-literature-synthesis
Draft is a list of works, not an argument about the subfield's development	proghg-organizing-framework
Coverage vs. selectivity, or fairness across theoretical traditions, feels off	proghg-comprehensiveness-and-balance
Need a debate-mapping table or a conceptual figure	proghg-tables-figures
Prose is dense/jargon-heavy; a geographer outside the subfield can't follow	proghg-writing-style
Documenting scholarly apparatus, positionality, or a search account	proghg-transparency-and-reproducibility
Working with the editors on a commissioned report vs. a submitted review	proghg-editor-strategy
Ready to submit via SAGE ScholarOne; need a preflight	proghg-submission
Received editor/referee feedback on the review	proghg-revision

Default order

1. proghg-topic-selection — confirm the debate is PiHG-scale (significant, contested, needs critical synthesis)
2. proghg-proposal-and-commissioning — the commissioned-report vs. submitted-review intake route
3. proghg-literature-synthesis — read the subfield critically (coverage discipline across traditions)
4. proghg-organizing-framework — impose the conceptual argument / spine
5. proghg-comprehensiveness-and-balance — fairness, reflexivity, even-handed traditions
6. proghg-tables-figures — debate-mapping tables and the conceptual figure
7. proghg-writing-style — the authoritative-yet-accessible PiHG voice (abstract + intro last)
8. proghg-transparency-and-reproducibility — scholarly apparatus, positionality, search account
9. proghg-editor-strategy — commissioned report vs. submitted review; what referees of a review check
10. proghg-submission — SAGE ScholarOne preflight
11. proghg-revision — after the editor/referee letter

proghg-writing-style is a late-stage polish; do not rewrite the intro before the conceptual argument and coverage settle. The route comes early — a progress report is commissioned and short, a review is submitted and longer, so proghg-proposal-and-commissioning precedes the heavy reading.

Anti-patterns

• Submitting an empirical paper or a detailed case study — PiHG does not publish empirical results (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准)
• Treating the review as an annotated bibliography (no conceptual argument) — the cardinal PiHG failure
• Using the author's own line of work as the review's center of gravity (self-promotion)
• Importing primary-research instincts: there is no "identification" or "replication package" of your own — you read others' work critically
• Confusing PiHG with Annals of the AAG (primary research, four areas), Transactions of the IBG (primary + some review), or Antipode (radical geography)

Routing by article archetype

A PiHG piece is not one thing; the bottleneck differs by type. Read the archetype, then enter the chain at the right link.

Archetype	Likely first bottleneck	Enter at
commissioned progress report (annual subfield survey, short)	scope discipline within a tight word limit	proghg-proposal-and-commissioning
major review essay (submitted, broad subfield)	scope is large; needs a conceptual spine	proghg-organizing-framework
theoretical / conceptual intervention	the argument about where the field should go	proghg-organizing-framework
emerging-debate review (young, fast-moving)	is it significant/mature enough for PiHG yet?	proghg-topic-selection

Minimal decision snippet

if editor_or_referee_letter:        -> proghg-revision
elif ready_to_submit:               -> proghg-submission
elif apparatus_or_positionality:    -> proghg-transparency-and-reproducibility
elif prose_dense_or_inaccessible:   -> proghg-writing-style
elif need_tables_or_figures:        -> proghg-tables-figures
elif coverage_or_fairness_off:      -> proghg-comprehensiveness-and-balance
elif reads_like_a_list:             -> proghg-organizing-framework
elif reading_unsystematic:          -> proghg-literature-synthesis
elif route_not_chosen:              -> proghg-proposal-and-commissioning
else:                               -> proghg-topic-selection