Use when targeting Environmental Health Perspectives or deciding whether an environmental-health manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the public-health-relevance and methodological-rigor bar, epidemiological/toxicological expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
SkillScore100Maintained
Automatic
◆Research pack
Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 23 of 23 test cases with the skill, and 7 of 23 without it.
Without skill30%
With skill100%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
The response rates manuscript fit as Low under [Fit].
The response rates manuscript fit as High under [Fit].
The response formats the [Fit] entry on a single line.
and 23 more in the full report
16 fixed7 passed either way0 still failing0 broke
Pass-rate lift
+70 pp
Tokens
+25%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-47%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v123 of 23 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 16 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 16
Prompt
Our research determined reaction rate constants and transformation pathways for pharmaceutical degradation using UV/persulfate advanced oxidation in ultrapure water. We included kinetic modeling but no toxicity testing or human exposure evaluation. Evaluate fit for EHP.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
The response evaluates manuscript fit as Low under [Fit].
Missed
Passed
The response includes environmental-science-and-technology under [Re-route suggestion].
Missed
Passed
case-17 · 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.md117 linessingle file
Environmental Health Perspectives (environmental-health-perspectives)
Journal positioning
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a peer-reviewed environmental-health journal
published with support from the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
(NIEHS), connecting environmental exposures to human health with strong public-health and
policy relevance. Its defining expectation is public-health significance backed by rigorous
epidemiology or toxicology: a study whose findings inform protection of human health and
sit within a public-health and regulatory context. Relative to Environment International's
broader environmental-science-plus-health scope, EHP is framed around the population-health
and policy mission and holds an explicit standard for transparency and reproducibility.
A purely environmental-chemistry or mechanistic study with no clear human-health and
public-health implication 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 EHP submission guidance.
When to trigger
The author names EHP and wants a fit/framing check for an environmental-health paper with
public-health relevance.
An exposure–health or toxicology study must be re-framed around its population-health and
policy implications.
The author is deciding between EHP and Environment International, or between EHP and a
broader environmental-science venue.
The author needs EHP's public-health-relevance bar and its rigor/transparency expectations.
Scope & topic fit
Environmental epidemiology linking exposures (air, water, chemicals, climate-related
hazards, the built and occupational environment) to human health outcomes.
Mechanistic and predictive toxicology, including new-approach methodologies, when anchored
to human health-relevance and hazard interpretation.
Children's and developmental environmental health and effects in susceptible or vulnerable
populations.
Climate change and health, environmental justice, and disparities in exposure and outcomes.
Exposure science and biomonitoring with a clear public-health interpretation and risk context.
Reviews, commentaries, and science-to-policy synthesis that advance environmental-health
decision-making.