| name | rt-venue-reframe |
| description | Use after a rejection, or when switching target journals, to turn a manuscript framed for one venue into one framed for another. Produces a concrete reframing diff — introduction arc, contribution claim, evidence to add or cut, house style, format — by reading both venues' own packs. Complements rt-journal-match, which picks the venue; this one does the rewrite plan. |
Cross-Venue Reframe (rt-venue-reframe)
rt-journal-match answers which venue next. This answers the question that
immediately follows and that nothing else in the repository covers: what actually has
to change in the paper.
Authors do this after almost every rejection, and they do it badly — usually by
swapping the journal name in the cover letter and resubmitting. A real reframe is a
diff across five layers, and both endpoints are already documented in this repo: the
source venue's pack and the target venue's pack.
When to trigger
- A paper was rejected at venue A and the next rung is venue B.
- The author is choosing between two live targets and wants to know the cost of each.
- An editor or referee said "this reads like a paper".
- A paper written for an international venue is being re-aimed at a Chinese venue, or
the reverse — the largest reframe distance in this repository.
Inputs
- From venue and to venue — as
venue_ids in
venue-index.tsv.
If the author only names a rejection, take the next rung from
ladder.tsv — filter to
same_discipline = yes and prefer high mentions, then sanity-check against
rt-journal-match.
- The manuscript — at minimum the title, abstract, intro, and the main table.
- The rejection signal, if any — desk reject, referee reject, or "not a fit".
Method — diff five layers, in this order
Read the to venue's fit/topic-selection and writing-style skills first; read the
from venue's only to identify what the paper currently optimizes for. Where a venue
is a breadth-bundle profile, its single SKILL.md (profile_path) carries the same
five layers in condensed form.
| Layer | Read | Produce |
|---|
| 1. Contribution claim | both packs' *-topic-selection / *-contribution-framing | the one sentence the paper must now be able to answer "why does this matter?" with. This is the layer that decides acceptance; the rest is execution. |
| 2. Introduction arc | both packs' *-writing-style | what moves to the first page, what drops to §2, what leaves entirely. General-interest venues want the surprising result early; field venues want the literature debt paid first. |
| 3. Evidence bar | the to-venue's *-identification / *-robustness / *-experiments | which robustness the new venue treats as baseline and the paper lacks, and which existing appendix material is now dead weight. |
| 4. House style & format | the to-venue's *-writing-style + resources/official-source-map.md | length, abstract style, exhibit conventions, citation style, appendix policy. Read the source map live — never quote a page cap or format rule from memory. |
| 5. Policy & package | the to-venue's *-replication-package / data policy in the source map | what the data-and-code deposit now requires; proprietary-data disclosure differences. |
Then rank the diff by cost × necessity: a reframe that needs a new identification
strategy is a different paper, and the honest answer may be "this is not a reframe,
pick a different rung."
Hard rules
- Read both packs. Never reframe from memory of a venue's reputation.
- All volatile facts (length, format, fees, data policy) come from the to-venue's
resources/official-source-map.md at reframe time.
- Defer fit judgement to the to-venue's own topic-selection skill — this skill
sequences and diffs, it does not overrule the venue's pack.
- Say when a reframe is not worth it. If layer 1 or 3 requires new evidence the
author cannot produce, state that plainly and route back to
rt-journal-match for a
different rung. Framing cannot rescue an identification problem.
- Preserve the paper's honesty. Reframing changes emphasis, structure and claim
scope — never the findings, magnitudes, or caveats. If a target venue's bar seems
to require overstating a result, that is a signal the venue is wrong, not the result.
Output format
【From → To】venue A → venue B (ladder evidence: n mentions | manual)
【Distance】small / moderate / different-paper — one line of why
【1 Contribution claim】before → after (the new "why it matters" sentence)
【2 Introduction arc】move / cut / add, in order
【3 Evidence bar】missing-and-required · now-dead-weight
【4 House style】length · abstract · exhibits · citations (source-map read: <date>)
【5 Policy】data-and-code deltas
【Cost-ranked plan】1..n, each with an effort estimate
【Do not do this reframe if】the condition that makes it futile
Anti-patterns
- Rewriting only the introduction. Layer 1 usually implies layer 3, and a paper whose
claim moved but whose evidence did not gets desk-rejected faster than the original.
- Reframing "upward" after a referee reject without addressing the binding objection —
route through the from-venue's
*-robustness skill first.
- Treating a Chinese ↔ English move as a translation task. The contribution grammar
(制度背景, 边际贡献, policy salience vs. general-interest novelty) differs, and both
packs document their own.
- Quoting the target's page cap or fee from memory instead of the source map.
Next: rt-desk-reject-risk to score the reframed draft against the new venue, then
rt-submission-readiness for the mechanical bar.
