--- name: brycewang-stanford/advmat-workflow source: https://app.decimal.ai/s/brycewang-stanford-advmat-workflow@1/SKILL.md source_sha256: a7795e410876 --- # Advanced Materials Workflow (advmat-workflow) ## Overview This is the router. It does not do the work of any specialized skill; it names **which advmat-* skill fits your current stage** and hands off. Default assumption: unless told otherwise, the target is **Advanced Materials (Adv. Mater.)** — Wiley-VCH's flagship materials-science journal. The defining bar is a genuine **materials-science advance** (a new material, mechanism, or property — not an incremental improvement) that is **rigorously characterized by multiple complementary techniques**, ideally carried through to a **device-level demonstration benchmarked against the state of the art**, and communicated with **cover-quality figures**. If the work is solid but incremental or narrowly functional, its home is more likely **Advanced Functional Materials**, **Advanced Science**, **Small**, or **Advanced Materials Interfaces**, and `advmat-scope-fit` will say so. ## When to trigger - User asks "what should I do next?" on a materials manuscript - User drops a draft and needs the current bottleneck diagnosed - User is unsure whether the result is "Adv. Mater.-worthy" or belongs in a sibling Advanced-portfolio journal - The manuscript is over the Communication/Article length format and content must be re-partitioned - User received a Wiley reviewer report and needs to switch into response mode ## Routing table | Current symptom | Next skill | |------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------| | Unsure if the advance is novel / broad enough for Adv. Mater. | `advmat-scope-fit` | | Result is real but the "why this is an advance" is unclear | `advmat-results-framing` | | Characterization is thin, or the experimental section sprawls | `advmat-methods` | | Figures are dense; no cover-quality lead figure or TOC graphic | `advmat-figures` | | Manuscript leans on the SI; reader can't follow without it | `advmat-supplementary` | | Prose is wordy, hedged, or not Wiley house style | `advmat-writing-style` | | Over the Communication (~4 pp) or Article (~10 pp) format budget | `advmat-length-management`| | Need a cover letter that argues advance + broad impact | `advmat-cover-letter` | | Ready to submit; need format / file / metadata preflight | `advmat-submission` | | Choosing suggested/opposed referees; anticipating objections | `advmat-referee-strategy` | | Received a reviewer report or editor decision; need to respond | `advmat-revision` | ## Default order 1. `advmat-scope-fit` — settle the advance + broad-impact gate first; redirect to a sibling journal if it fails 2. `advmat-results-framing` — lock the single central advance and its significance 3. `advmat-methods` — make the multi-technique characterization airtight; full experimental detail to the SI 4. `advmat-figures` — design the lead figure and the TOC graphic to convey the advance at a glance 5. `advmat-supplementary` — partition extended data / methods into Supporting Information; the paper must stand alone 6. `advmat-writing-style` — Wiley house style, concision, defined nomenclature and units 7. `advmat-length-management` — fit the Communication or Article format (display items and words counted together) 8. `advmat-cover-letter` — argue the advance + broad-impact case to the editors 9. `advmat-submission` — final preflight (format, files, article type, ORCID, TOC graphic) 10. `advmat-referee-strategy` — suggested / opposed referees; pre-empt the characterization / benchmarking objections 11. `advmat-revision` — after the reviewer reports arrive > `advmat-writing-style` and `advmat-length-management` are **late polish stages**. Do not trim to the page format before the central advance, characterization, and figures are stable, or you will cut load-bearing evidence. ## Decision heuristics - "Reviewer 2 will ask 'why not Adv. Funct. Mater.?'" → `advmat-scope-fit` - "I can state the material but not why it is a genuine advance" → `advmat-results-framing` - "A referee will say the phase assignment isn't proven" → `advmat-methods` - "My lead figure has ten panels and no single takeaway" → `advmat-figures` - "You can't judge the material without reading the SI" → `advmat-supplementary` - "I'm over the page limit and every figure is huge" → `advmat-length-management` - "The editor needs to be told why this matters beyond my subfield" → `advmat-cover-letter` - "Submitting tonight" → `advmat-submission` - "Who should I suggest as a referee?" → `advmat-referee-strategy` - "Three reviewer reports just landed" → `advmat-revision` ## Manuscript status board Readiness is a two-column question: is the *science* settled, and does it *fit the format*? Fill this board before invoking `advmat-submission`; any cell still marked OPEN routes you back to the named skill. ```text ADV. MATER. STATUS BOARD verdict owner skill ======================================== ======== ===================== GATE materials advance + broad impact OPEN advmat-scope-fit (fails → retarget AFM / Adv.Sci.) ADVANCE one central new material / OPEN advmat-results-framing mechanism / property, stated plainly CHAR multi-technique characterization OPEN advmat-methods proves structure→property claim FIG lead figure + TOC graphic = OPEN advmat-figures the advance at a glance SI paper stands alone; SI holds OPEN advmat-supplementary extended data / full experimental STYLE Wiley house style, units defined OPEN advmat-writing-style FIT inside Communication / Article OPEN advmat-length-management format (display items counted) CASE cover letter argues advance+impact OPEN advmat-cover-letter REFS suggested / opposed referees named OPEN advmat-referee-strategy ---------------------------------------- -------- --------------------- all rows CLOSED → advmat-submission preflight → submit reviewer report arrives → advmat-revision ``` ## Differences vs. sibling Advanced-portfolio journals Advanced Materials shares Wiley-VCH production and rigor standards with Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, Small, and Advanced Materials Interfaces, but differs on the **gate**: - **Adv. Mater.**: a broadly significant materials advance — a new material, mechanism, or property that reshapes how a field thinks. Incremental optimization is declined on impact grounds even when flawless. - **AFM / Small / Adv. Sci. / AMI**: excellent, rigorous, but appropriately specialist or incremental work with a well-defined audience. If `advmat-scope-fit` returns a "specialist / incremental" verdict, retarget rather than fighting the impact gate. ## Anti-patterns - **Do not** skip `advmat-scope-fit` — editors triage on advance/impact first; a wrong-venue paper burns a submission cycle - **Do not** run `advmat-length-management` before the science is stable — you will cut characterization the referees need - **Do not** let the Supporting Information become the place where the real evidence hides - **Do not** draft `advmat-revision` responses before you have actually changed the manuscript and added the requested data > Durable norms only. Verify current word/page limits, article types, formats, and policies on the official Wiley Advanced Materials author page.