Alterlab Peer Review
Skill ActivePart of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite. Structured manuscript/grant review with checklist-based evaluation. Use when writing formal peer reviews with specific criteria methodology assessment, statistical validity, reporting standards compliance (CONSORT/STROBE), and constructive feedback. Best for actual review writing, manuscript revision. For evaluating claims/evidence quality use scientific-critical-thinking; for quantitative scoring frameworks use scholar-evaluation.
To facilitate rigorous and constructive peer review of academic manuscripts and grant proposals by providing a systematic, criteria-based evaluation framework.
Features
- Structured manuscript and grant review process
- Checklist-based evaluation of methodology, statistics, and reporting standards
- Guidance on constructive feedback and writing quality
- Integration with visualization tools for generating schematics
- Detailed workflow stages for systematic review
Use Cases
- Performing peer reviews for scientific journals
- Evaluating grant proposals
- Assessing statistical validity and reporting compliance
- Providing detailed feedback for manuscript revision
Non-Goals
- Evaluating claims/evidence quality (use scientific-critical-thinking)
- Quantitative scoring frameworks (use scholar-evaluation)
- Automatic manuscript generation
Trust
- warning:Issues Attention22 issues opened in the last 90 days and 0 closed indicates a very low closure rate, suggesting maintainer response might be slow.
Installation
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsRuns the Vercel skills CLI (skills.sh) via npx — needs Node.js locally and at least one installed skills-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …). Assumes the repo follows the agentskills.io format.
Quality Score
Trust Signals
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