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Agent skill stack for manuscripts targeted at the Annals of the American Association of Geographers (Annals of the AAG) — the flagship geography journal, founded in 1911 (as the Annals of the Association of American Geographers) and published by Taylor & Francis (Routledge) for the American Association of Geographers (AAG). The Annals publishes the best scholarship across the whole discipline of geography, organized around four areas plus a cross-disciplinary track: Geographic Methods (GIScience, spatial analysis, modeling); Human Geography; Nature and Society; and Physical Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences — quantitative/spatial, GIScience, remote-sensing, qualitative, and mixed-methods work alike.
This repository is opinionated. It is not a generic social-science writing toolbox and it is not an economics or GIS-software pack repurposed for geography. It is an Annals-specific stack: a question where space, place, and scale are load-bearing, an argument grounded in geographic theory that speaks across the four areas, a design defended on its own terms (spatial autocorrelation, MAUP/scale, validation, positionality), maps held to cartographic standard, double-anonymous preparation, and spatial-data provenance + geoprivacy handled honestly.
The Annals's constraints differ from a specialty geography journal or a methods journal:
| Constraint | Annals of the AAG | Implication |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Whole discipline, structured in four areas + General Geography | The paper must matter across geography, not one sub-field |
| Premium on | Geographic significance (space/place/scale load-bearing) + geographic theory | A "domain study with a map" is off-fit |
| Methods | Spatial-quant, GIScience, remote-sensing, qualitative, mixed — judged on own terms | Do not force one template onto every paper |
| Publisher / owner | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) / AAG | Submitted via ScholarOne Manuscripts |
| Review model | Double-anonymous; 1–3 referees (one editor/designate) | Anonymize the manuscript and study-site detail |
| Editors | A subject editor per area + General + a Cartography Editor; four-year terms | Declare the area; it routes the editor and the bar |
| Length | Article ≤ 11,000 words including abstract, refs, notes, tables, captions | Budget the whole document, not just the body |
| Other formats | Forums (≤ 25,000 total) and Commentaries (< 2,000) | Choose the right format up front |
| Style | Chicago Manual of Style (author-date); 3–5 italicized keywords | Not a generic style; keywords italicized & alphabetized |
| Exhibits | Maps held to cartographic standard (projection, classification, legend) | A Cartography Editor reviews; figures count toward the cap |
| Transparency | Spatial-data provenance + geoprivacy; T&F data policy | Document sources/CRS/processing; mask sensitive locations |
Volatile specifics (editors and terms, exact caps, abstract length, fee/APC, data-policy wording) change
— items not directly confirmed are marked 待核实 in
resources/official-source-map.md. Official basis checked 2026-06.
Verify on the official journal page.
- Geographic Methods — GIScience, spatial analysis, modeling, geocomputation.
- Human Geography — social/cultural/economic/political/urban geography, often qualitative.
- Nature and Society — coupled human-environment systems, political ecology, hazards, land change.
- Physical Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences — geomorphology, biogeography, climatology, remote sensing.
- General Geography (cross-disciplinary) — contributions that span the areas.
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/annals-aag-skills
/plugin install annals-aag-skills
/reload-pluginsgit clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/annals-aag-skills.git
cd annals-aag-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -R skills/aaag-* ~/.claude/skills/
# or
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills && cp -R skills/aaag-* ~/.codex/skills/Use aaag-workflow to tell me which skill I should use next for my Annals of the AAG manuscript.
aaag-topic-selection
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aaag-literature-positioning
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aaag-theory-building
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aaag-research-design
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aaag-data-analysis
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aaag-tables-figures
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aaag-writing-style (polish)
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aaag-transparency-and-data
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aaag-review-process
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aaag-submission
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aaag-rebuttal
aaag-workflow is the router — it tells you which skill to use next based on where you are and which of
the four areas your paper targets. Most papers loop theory ↔ design ↔ analysis several times before
writing-style.
| Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|
aaag-workflow |
Router — decides which sub-skill to invoke next; picks the area & article type |
aaag-topic-selection |
Geographic-significance fit + area declaration (Methods/Human/Nature-Society/Physical/General) |
aaag-literature-positioning |
Enter a geographic conversation across the area and the discipline |
aaag-theory-building |
Build a portable geographic argument (place, scale, space-time, environment-society) |
aaag-research-design |
Defend the design — spatial/quant & GIS, remote-sensing/physical, qualitative, mixed |
aaag-data-analysis |
Spatially honest analysis (autocorrelation, MAUP, validation), uncertainty, robustness |
aaag-tables-figures |
Maps to cartographic standard; figures and tables within the inclusive cap |
aaag-writing-style |
Chicago author-date; 11,000-word inclusive cap; italicized keywords; reads as geography |
aaag-transparency-and-data |
Spatial-data provenance, reproducibility, and geoprivacy / human-subjects ethics |
aaag-review-process |
Double-anonymous review by area; decision categories; desk-reject triggers |
aaag-submission |
ScholarOne preflight (area/type, anonymization, word count, keywords, ORCID) |
aaag-rebuttal |
Revision response to the subject editor + 1–3 cross-area referees |
resources/external_tools.md— geographic data sources (Census/IPUMS/OSM/Landsat/Sentinel/DEMs/GBIF) + GIS / spatial-stats / remote-sensing / qualitative toolingresources/official-source-map.md— official AAG / Taylor & Francis URLs behind every fact, with 待核实 markers on unverified itemsresources/exemplars/library.md— real, web-verified Annals papers by area × method, with a sibling-journal guardrailresources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md— before→after Annals-style introduction (fictional, illustrative)
| Journal | What it is | Use this pack instead when… |
|---|---|---|
| Annals of the AAG | AAG's broad four-area flagship, original research | …your geography is load-bearing and reaches across an area |
| Progress in Human Geography | review/agenda essays | …you are writing original empirical work, not a review |
| Geographical Analysis | formal spatial-analytic methods | …your Methods contribution is broader/more applied than GA |
| IJGIS | GIScience methods/algorithms | …the geographic question, not the algorithm, leads |
| The Professional Geographer / Transactions of the IBG | shorter AAG reports / UK flagship | …you want the AAG's broad full-length flagship |
- It does not write a submittable manuscript for you
- It does not simulate any specific editor's or reviewer's taste
- It does not assert volatile metadata (current editors and terms, exact caps, fee/APC, policy wording) — verify on the official page; unverified items are marked 待核实
- It does not decide whether your geography is load-bearing or which area fits — that is the researcher's call
- awesome-journal-skills — Index of journal-specific skill packs
- Annals of the AAG (Taylor & Francis Online) — publisher home
- Annals of the AAG at the AAG — owner, areas, author guidelines
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