geology
GitHub用于评估地质学研究是否适合发表在《Geology》期刊的辅助工具。检查研究是否符合短篇幅、高影响力、广泛意义的要求，提供框架调整建议及拒稿启发式判断，辅助作者进行投稿决策和稿件重构。
触发场景
用户询问论文是否适合投稿至 Geology
需要将研究成果压缩为简短的高影响力信件
在 Geology 和 EPSL 之间选择投稿期刊
需要确认 Geology 对广泛意义和快速传播的标准
安装
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill geology -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "geology",
"description": "Use when targeting Geology (GSA) or deciding whether a short, high-impact geoscience research letter fits this venue. Encodes the journal's broad-significance-in-tight-length fit, the novelty and rapid-communication bar, GSA house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
Geology (geology)
Journal positioning
Geology is the Geological Society of America's flagship outlet for short, high-impact research letters across the geosciences. The defining expectation is a contribution that is at once novel, broadly significant, and concisely framed for a wide geoscience audience within a tight length limit — a result that changes how a broad readership thinks about an earth process, delivered rapidly. The constraint is as much editorial as scientific: the science must be both important and compressible to a few pages, with the significance legible to non-specialists. A thorough but incremental study, a regional report without wide implications, or a paper that genuinely needs full article length to make its case is a poor fit, regardless of quality. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current author guidance. Before submitting, re-check the live Geology / GSA author instructions and data policy.
When to trigger
- The author names Geology and wants a fit/framing check for a short, high-significance geoscience result.
- A finding with wide implications must be compressed into a tight, broadly legible letter rather than a full-length article.
- The author is choosing between Geology (short GSA letter) and
earth-and-planetary-science-letters(longer quantitative process article). - The author needs Geology's broad-significance-in-tight-length bar and rapid-communication expectations.
Scope & topic fit
- Tectonics, structural geology, and geodynamics with implications beyond one orogen or basin.
- Sedimentology, stratigraphy, and Earth-surface processes that reframe a depositional or landscape model.
- Geochronology and thermochronology that newly constrain rates or timing of broad interest.
- Petrology, volcanology, and geochemistry where a result shifts a process understanding.
- Paleontology, paleoclimate, and paleobiology when a finding has wide-reaching significance.
- Any geoscience subfield where the contribution is novel and the implications travel beyond the immediate community.
Method & evidence bar
- The result must be novel and broadly significant, and that significance must be demonstrable to a wide geoscience audience, not just asserted.
- Evidence must be sufficient and rigorous despite brevity: methods, data, and uncertainty must still be defensible within the compressed format.
- A single, sharp claim should be supported cleanly; the letter should not over-reach beyond what the compact dataset can bear.
- Chronology, geochemistry, and modeling claims require the same standards (standards/ reference materials, calibration, sensitivity) as longer venues, reported efficiently.
- Alternative interpretations must be acknowledged and the preferred one justified, even in short form.
- Supporting data, analytical detail, and code belong in a GSA data repository / supplement with a persistent identifier so the compact main text remains reproducible.
Structure & house style
- GSA short-letter format with a strict length limit; the science must fit, not be crammed — re-check current length, figure, and reference limits on the live guide.
- The opening must state the broad significance immediately; a slow regional setup wastes the format and the reader.
- Figures must be few, self-explanatory, and decisive; each one must earn its place in the tight budget.
- Methods and extended data move to the GSA data repository / supplemental material, with the main text carrying only the load-bearing evidence.
- A data-availability statement and repository deposition are expected; the supplement must support reproducibility of the compact result.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the GSA/Geology anchors, then cite the current Geology page you checked. - Search the live site for "Geology GSA author guidelines" and follow the current GSA version.
- Re-check the strict length, figure, and reference limits and the abstract/format expectations specific to short letters.
- Confirm the GSA data-repository / supplemental-material policy and deposit supporting data with a persistent identifier.
- Re-check competing-interests, funding, author-contribution, AI-use disclosure, and open-access terms.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- The result is novel and its significance is legible to a broad geoscience audience.
- The science genuinely fits the short-letter length without over-reaching.
- Methods, data, and uncertainty remain defensible within the compressed format.
- Figures are few, decisive, and self-explanatory.
- Extended methods/data are in the GSA repository/supplement with an identifier.
- Alternative interpretations are acknowledged and the preferred one justified.
Common desk-reject triggers
- A thorough but incremental result without wide implications for the format.
- A regional study whose significance does not travel beyond the immediate community.
- A paper that genuinely requires full article length and is crammed into the limit.
- Brevity used to hide thin evidence, missing uncertainty, or unaddressed alternatives.
- Overstated significance not supported by the compact dataset.
- Missing GSA data-repository deposition where required.
Re-routing decision
- A longer, fully quantitative process/geochemistry article →
earth-and-planetary-science-letters. - Highest-impact geoscience breakthrough for a general audience →
nature-geoscience. - Broad earth/environment open-access framing at standard length →
communications-earth-and-environment. - A short geophysical result better suited to an AGU letter →
geophysical-research-letters. - A documented dataset rather than an interpretation is the product →
earth-system-science-data.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Geology (GSA)
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest geoscience topics>
[Broad significance] <why a wide geoscience audience should care, in one line>
[Fits-the-format] <can the result stand within the short-letter limit without over-reach?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <length/figure limits / GSA data repository / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
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