Use when targeting JAMA Pediatrics or deciding whether a child- or adolescent-health study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the pediatric clinical and population-research evidence bar, pediatric design and ethics requirements, reporting-guideline and trial-registration expectations, JAMA Network house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.
SkillScore88Maintained
Automatic
◆Research pack
Last verified 9/1/2026
What it changes
Passed 22 of 25 test cases with the skill, and 13 of 25 without it.
Without skill52%
With skill88%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
Rates fit as High.
Rates fit as High, Medium, or Low.
Includes the bracketed section header [Fit].
and 8 more in the full report
10 fixed12 passed either way2 still failing1 broke
Pass-rate lift
+36 pp
Tokens
+6%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-36%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 9/1/2026v122 of 25 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 10 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 10
Prompt
We evaluated hypertension screening efficacy in a university student clinic cohort of young adults aged 18 to 25. Evaluate fit for JAMA Pediatrics with structured outputs for fit, target, specialty tags, design guideline, evidence review, top risk, official items, and re-route recommendations.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
Recommends re-routing to JAMA Internal Medicine.
Missed
Passed
Identifies adult population age group as the primary rejection risk.
Passed
Passed
case-14 · gemini-3.6-flash · 9/1/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md122 linessingle file
JAMA Pediatrics (jama-pediatrics)
Journal positioning
JAMA Pediatrics is a JAMA Network specialty journal for clinical and population
research on the health of infants, children, and adolescents. It favors rigorous,
practice- and policy-relevant work — randomized pediatric trials, large child-health
cohorts and population studies, prevention and developmental research, and health-
services analyses — with JAMA's emphasis on age-appropriate outcomes, adequate power,
and direct relevance to child and adolescent care. Studies that simply extrapolate
adult findings, small descriptive series, and work using adult-derived outcomes
without pediatric validation are a weak fit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection /
re-framing aid; it is not clinical or regulatory advice and does not replace the
journal's current instructions for authors. Before submitting, re-check the live JAMA
Pediatrics author instructions.
When to trigger
The author names JAMA Pediatrics for a child- or adolescent-health clinical,
developmental, or population study and wants a fit/framing check.
A pediatric study must be re-framed around an age-appropriate, developmentally valid
outcome for a child-health readership.
The author is choosing between JAMA Pediatrics, JAMA, and a pediatric-subspecialty
journal.
The author needs the journal's pediatric-specific design, ethics (assent/parental
consent), reporting-guideline, registration, and desk-reject expectations.
Scope & topic fit
Randomized pediatric trials (therapeutic, behavioral, preventive, or vaccine) with
age-appropriate primary outcomes, including pragmatic designs.
Large child- and adolescent-health cohorts, birth cohorts, and population/registry
studies with rigorous confounding control.
Developmental, neurodevelopmental, growth, nutrition, and early-life-exposure studies
with validated pediatric measures.
Adolescent health, mental-health, injury-prevention, and child-maltreatment research
with appropriate sensitivity and ethics.
Pediatric health-services, quality, vaccine-policy, and disparities research.
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses answering a focused child-health question.
Use when targeting JAMA Psychiatry or deciding whether a clinical-psychiatry or mental-health study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the psychiatric-trial and observational/neuropsychiatric evidence bar, reporting-guideline and trial-registration requirements, JAMA Network house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.