Individual skill
nature-medicine
Use when targeting Nature Medicine or deciding whether a translational or clinical medicine manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
English-NaturalScience-Journal-Skills/skills/nature-medicine/SKILL.md
Source commit 932eb23331721b16e967c59f093781be1928b498
What was checked
- Matches the observed repository HEAD
- Yes
- Scanner rules are current
- Yes
- Repository scan complete
- No
- Skill scan complete
- Yes
- Observed behavior
- Network or broad shell
- Last checked
- Nov 9, 2026
These are observations at the recorded commit, not a guarantee of safety. Review the source before running it.
Install this skill
Choose an agent in your Stack or copy a command below. Commands fetch the pinned commit and copy only this skill directory. Existing destinations are refused. Copying a command does not install anything.
An install command is unavailable: current rules, complete repository and skill scans, an eligible behavior level and a permitted license are required.
Repository context
- Repository stars (not skill ratings)
- 1,405
- Repository last updated
- Sep 27, 2026
- License
- MIT
Observed agent integration: No specific integration evidence. Standard SKILL.md installation does not imply verified compatibility.
- academic-writing Repository topic
- agent-skills Repository topic
- journal Repository topic
- academic-research Repository topic
- ai-agents Repository topic
- anthropic Repository topic
- awesome-list Repository topic
- claude Repository topic
- claude-code Repository topic
- economics Repository topic
- engineering Derived category
Files and excerpt
File metadata and permitted, redacted excerpts come from the recorded scan. Source links are pinned to that commit.
Browse files
SKILL.mdcore · 9,167 bytes
Read excerpt
# Nature Medicine (nature-medicine)
## Journal positioning
Nature Medicine, published by Springer Nature, is the premier translational and clinical medicine journal in the Nature family. It publishes research that moves from biological mechanism to clinical application—spanning fundamental disease biology, biomarker discovery, clinical trials, and computational medicine—as long as the work has direct and demonstrated relevance to human disease. The journal demands both biological depth and clinical plausibility; purely preclinical studies without a clear translational bridge, and purely clinical studies without mechanistic insight, each face a steep hurdle. The readership spans translational researchers, physician-scientists, and clinical trialists worldwide.
This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Springer Nature site or submission system.
## When to trigger
- The author names Nature Medicine as the target venue for a translational study, first-in-human trial, or biomarker/diagnostic discovery.
- A manuscript moves from a mechanistic finding in human tissue or model systems to a clinical cohort or trial and needs guidance on framing the translational arc.
- A clinical genomics, AI/ML-based diagnostic, or multi-omics disease-subtyping study needs a venue that bridges discovery science and clinical impact.
- The author needs Nature Medicine's desk-reject risks and credible alternatives before submitting.