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Add Journal Profile (add-journal)

Turns a journal's author guidelines into two canonical profiles — a detailed one for drafting papers and a compact one for journal matching.

Content & WritingIntermediate★ 325⑂ 77AI score 8/10Last updated: Oct 3, 2026

What it does

  • Fetches (or accepts pasted) Author Guidelines and produces two files per journal:
    • A detailed /write-paper profile (~100–150 lines, fixed 11-section order)
    • A compact /find-journal profile (~30 lines, 15–20 scope keywords)
  • Chooses a storage tier up front: public (contributed upstream, must clear the POLICY.md verification checklist) or user-local private (outside the git tree). Falls back to private when the user can't attest to the source.
  • Runs a duplicate check across all four profile directories, then two explicit approval gates (metadata confirmation, draft review) before anything is written.
  • Hard rule against fabrication: Impact Factor, acceptance rate, APC, ISSN, word limits must be sourced or marked [TODO: verify at journal site].

Who it's for

  • Medical/biomedical researchers who submit to many journals and re-check submission rules each time
  • Existing users of the medsci-skills suite (write-paper, find-journal) who want to grow the journal library
  • Labs or writing groups standardizing target-journal documentation

Example uses

  1. "Add a profile for JAMA Network Open, here's the guidelines URL" → duplicate check, metadata summary for your approval, then JAMA_Network_Open.md written to both profile directories.
  2. An unfamiliar open-access title → the skill flags DOAJ/indexing checks and defaults to the private tier so nothing questionable lands in the shared repo.
  3. Batch mode: hand it five candidate journals at once; it de-dupes all of them first, then extracts and writes every file in one final pass.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/add-journal folder from the GitHub repo Aperivue/medsci-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/add-journal/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/Aperivue/medsci-skills.git /tmp/medsci-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/medsci-skills/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/Aperivue/medsci-skills.git /tmp/medsci-skills
  3. Create the skills folder if needed: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skills across: cp -r /tmp/medsci-skills/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/
    • Copy the whole set: add-journal reads templates and policy files from the sibling write-paper and find-journal skills.
  5. Restart Claude Code and ask "create a journal profile" to confirm the skill loads.
  6. When using it, supply the full official journal name and the author guidelines URL; if the page is login-gated or JS-heavy, paste the relevant sections instead.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT