Use when targeting Environment International or deciding whether an environmental-exposure/health manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the population-relevant exposure-health evidence bar, exposome/contaminant expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
SkillScore91Maintained
Automatic
◆Writing & Editing pack
Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 20 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 13 of 22 without it.
Without skill61%
With skill91%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
Evaluates overall venue fit as High.
Rates the journal fit as Low or Medium-Low.
Re-routes the paper to nature-sustainability.
and 6 more in the full report
8 fixed13 passed either way1 still failing1 broke
Pass-rate lift
+30 pp
Tokens
+13%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-48%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v121 of 23 cases passed with skill · 22 comparable
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 7 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 7
Prompt
We evaluated community-level public health intervention frameworks and NIEHS-style policy implementation for urban environmental justice programs. Our focus is heavily centered on public health policy and environmental health equity rather than quantitative exposure epidemiology. Provide a venue fit assessment and output your analysis in the journal evaluation format.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
Re-routes the manuscript to environmental-health-perspectives as the primary venue for NIEHS-style public health and policy framing.
Missed
Passed
case-06 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/15/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md116 linessingle file
Environment International (environment-international)
Journal positioning
Environment International is the Elsevier journal for environmental science with a strong
human-health and exposure emphasis — environmental exposures and contaminants, the exposome,
environmental epidemiology, and human health-risk assessment across air, water, soil, food,
and the built environment. Its defining expectation is population-relevant exposure–health
evidence: a study that connects a measured or modeled environmental exposure to a human
health outcome or risk with rigorous quantification. Compared with Environmental Health
Perspectives, the scope is broader environmental-science-plus-health and method-forward;
a purely environmental-monitoring paper with no health relevance, or a clinical study with no
environmental exposure, is a weak fit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing
tool. It does not replace the journal's current author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check
the live Environment International submission guidance.
When to trigger
The author names Environment International and wants a fit/framing check for an
environmental-exposure or environmental-health paper.
An exposure-assessment, contaminant, or exposome study must be re-framed toward its
population-relevant health implication.
The author is deciding between Environment International and Environmental Health
Perspectives, or between it and a pure environmental-science venue.
The author needs this journal's exposure–health evidence bar and desk-reject heuristics.
Scope & topic fit
Human exposure assessment: external and internal (biomonitoring) exposure to chemical,
physical, and biological agents across multiple environmental media.
Exposome and mixtures: high-dimensional exposure characterization and combined-exposure
effects on health.
Environmental epidemiology linking exposures to health outcomes across the life course,
including susceptible populations.
Emerging and legacy contaminants (e.g., PFAS, metals, air pollutants, EDCs) with measured
exposure and a health or risk endpoint.
Health-risk assessment, exposure modeling, and method development for exposure science when
the population-health relevance is explicit.
Mechanistic toxicology or in-vitro/animal work when clearly anchored to human exposure and risk.