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gec-topic-selection
GitHub用于评估环境变化项目是否符合GEC期刊要求。聚焦社会科学与政策相关性，通过四维测试（社科成分、政策意义、原创贡献、多尺度框架）及主题引导，帮助确定选题方向与文章格式，避免纯自然科学或描述性研究。
Trigger Scenarios
选择GEC投稿项目的选题或框架
被指出论文过于偏向自然科学或缺乏社科贡献
决定撰写Research Article还是Perspective
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill gec-topic-selection -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "gec-topic-selection",
"description": "Use when deciding whether an environmental-change project fits Global Environmental Change (GEC) and how to frame it. GEC publishes the human and policy dimensions of global environmental change and requires a significant social-science component, so the test is societal significance and policy relevance, not an environmental result alone. Helps frame the question; it does not collect data."
}
Topic Selection & Fit (gec-topic-selection)
GEC is the leading journal on the human and policy dimensions of global environmental change. The bar is not "an interesting environmental finding" — it is "advances knowledge about how societies drive, experience, and respond to environmental change." Use this skill to pressure-test fit before you invest.
When to trigger
- Choosing among possible projects or framings for a GEC submission
- A reviewer/colleague said the paper feels "too natural-science" or "no social-science contribution"
- Deciding between a full Research Article and a shorter Perspective
- Checking that the work speaks to multiple scales (local processes, global consequences)
The GEC fit test
A strong GEC paper usually clears all four:
- A significant social-science component. The paper must illuminate the social drivers or consequences of environmental change, or the social, governance, and policy processes that address it — not a biophysical result with a policy sentence attached.
- Societal / policy significance. A reader outside your discipline should see why it matters for how societies adapt, govern, distribute risk, or transition. State the stakes.
- A genuine contribution. It changes how the field frames, measures, or governs a problem — a new conceptual framework, a decisive empirical test, a reconceptualization, or an evidence base for action.
- Multi-scale framing. GEC reads global environmental change as manifest in localities with consequences across spatial, temporal, and socio-political scales — connect your case to that.
Theme framing (lead with the human dimension)
| Theme | Reach GEC's audience by… |
|---|---|
| Climate adaptation / vulnerability | tie exposure to social vulnerability, capacity, and equity, not hazard alone |
| Environmental governance | draw the general governance mechanism, not just one institution's story |
| Sustainability transitions | connect socio-technical change to actors, power, and policy levers |
| Food / water / land / oceans | frame as a coupled human-environment system, not a resource study |
| Behavior / values | link individual behavior to drivers, scale, and policy design |
Format choice
- Research Article — full study, broad claim, up to 8,000 words; review-style pieces belong here only when they add new insight beyond summarizing the literature.
- Perspective — a distinctive, agenda-setting viewpoint, up to 3,000 words; argument-led and not the right format for papers requiring methods/data-analysis description.
Anti-patterns
- An environmental / biophysical result with no social-science contribution (off-fit)
- "It has not been studied in country X" as the whole contribution (descriptive, local-only)
- A method demonstration with no human-dimensions or policy payoff
- A sprawling question that cannot be answered convincingly within the length cap
Output format
【Question】one sentence
【Human / policy dimension】the social drivers, consequences, or governance processes at stake
【Societal significance】who outside the subfield cares, and why
【Contribution type】framework / test / measurement / reconceptualization / evidence-for-action
【Format】Research Article / Perspective / other
【Fit verdict】strong / needs reframing / off-fit (why)
【Next】gec-literature-positioning
Supplementary resources
../../resources/external_tools.md— data sources by theme../../resources/official-source-map.md— GEC scope and article types
Version History
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