Paper Review

This walks you through a structured self-review before you submit your own academic paper. It's not for peer reviewing someone else's work. The core is a five-aspect checklist covering contribution sufficiency, writing clarity, results quality, testing completeness, and method design flaws. What makes it interesting is the counterintuitive protocol: simulate writing a rejection of your own paper first, deliberately delete one unsupported claim, and promote a limitation to the main text instead of hiding it. It also includes reverse-outlining to check logical flow and a pointed reminder that every claim in your abstract needs experimental support. Use this when you want to stress-test your draft and prepare for the worst reviewers before they arrive.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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$ npx -y skills add evoscientist/evoskills --skill paper-review --agent claude-code

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Paper Review

A systematic approach to self-reviewing academic papers before submission, run as three passes: an adversarial deep read, a checklist sweep (5 aspects, reverse-outlining, figure/table quality), and mechanical consistency scans plus an experimental protocol audit. Ends with rebuttal preparation.

When to Use This Skill

User wants to review or check a paper draft before submission
User asks for feedback on paper quality or completeness
User wants to prepare for potential reviewer criticism
User mentions "review paper", "check my draft", "self-review"

If the user has already received reviewer comments and needs to write a rebuttal, use the paper-rebuttal skill instead.

Prerequisites

Before starting review, confirm the paper-writing handoff checklist is satisfied: all sections drafted, claims anchored to evidence, limitation section present, figures finalized, and no unresolved \todo{} markers. If any item is incomplete, finish writing before reviewing.