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Use when starting or navigating any Annals of the American Association of Geographers (Annals of the AAG) manuscript and you need the entry point. Routes to the right sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and which of the journal's four areas (plus the cross-disciplinary track) the paper targets. It dispatches; it does not draft content.

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Annals of the AAG Workflow Router (aaag-workflow)

The orchestrator for an Annals submission. Figure out the stage and the area, then send the user to the matching skill. The Annals is the broad four-area flagship of the discipline — the router's first job is to make the paper legible as geography, not just as a domain study that happens to use maps or coordinates.

When to trigger

  • Starting a new Annals paper and unsure where to begin
  • Mid-project and unsure which skill applies next
  • Deciding which of the four areas (or the cross-disciplinary/General Geography track) the paper targets
  • Choosing the article type (Article, Forum, Commentary) — they have different caps
  • Returning with a decision letter (route to aaag-rebuttal)

First question: which area?

The Annals routes manuscripts to a subject editor by area; the area you declare shapes the reviewers and the bar. Pick the closest, or General Geography if the contribution is discipline-wide.

Your workAreaWatch for
Spatial analysis, GIScience, modeling, geocomputationGeographic Methodsmethod must advance geographic inference, not just apply a tool
Social/cultural/economic/political/urban geography, often qualitativeHuman Geographyengage geographic theory; not a sociology paper with a map
Coupled human-environment systems, political ecology, hazards, land changeNature and Societyboth sides (nature and society) must be theorized
Geomorphology, biogeography, climatology, remote sensing of the environmentPhysical Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciencesrigor of an earth-science venue + geographic framing
Contribution spans areas / is discipline-wideGeneral Geography (cross-disciplinary)say why all geographers should care

Article type (caps differ — see aaag-submission)

FormatScopeCap (verify; 检索于 2026-06)
Articlefull original study≤ 11,000 words incl. abstract, refs, notes, tables, figure captions
Forumcurated multi-author debateintro 2,500 + papers 5,000 each, ≤ 25,000 total
Commentaryresponse/short intervention< 2,000 words incl. references

Routing map (stage → skill)

Area fit & framing?              → aaag-topic-selection
Where does it sit in geography?  → aaag-literature-positioning
What's the geographic argument?  → aaag-theory-building
Is the design defensible?        → aaag-research-design
Are the analyses sound?          → aaag-data-analysis
Are the maps/exhibits clear?     → aaag-tables-figures
Does it read as geography?       → aaag-writing-style
Spatial-data provenance/ethics?  → aaag-transparency-and-data
How will it be judged?           → aaag-review-process
Ready to submit?                 → aaag-submission
Got an R&R / decision?           → aaag-rebuttal

Default order

topic-selection → literature-positioning → theory-building → research-design → data-analysis → tables-figures → writing-style → transparency-and-data → review-process → submission → rebuttal

Iterate: most papers loop theory ↔ design ↔ analysis several times before writing-style.

Geography fit check (run before routing onward)

CheckPass conditionRoute if weak
Geographic-nessThe space/place/scale/spatial-process is constitutive of the argument, not decorative.aaag-topic-selection
AreaThe paper clearly targets one of the four areas (or General Geography).area table above
Method on own termsQuantitative/spatial, GIScience, remote-sensing, or qualitative work is defended in its own tradition.aaag-research-design
Spatial-data integrityProjections, sources, and geoprivacy/human-subjects ethics have a plan.aaag-transparency-and-data

If "geographic-ness" fails — the paper would be unchanged if you deleted the geography — do not route to writing-style; it needs a theory/fit repair (aaag-topic-selection).

Anti-patterns

  • Treating the Annals like a domain journal that "also takes maps" — the geography must be load-bearing
  • Forcing a quantitative-spatial template onto qualitative human geography (each area is judged on its own terms)
  • Picking the wrong area editor (a Nature-Society paper sent as pure Physical, or vice versa)
  • Sending a 14,000-word draft to a journal that caps everything (incl. captions/notes) at 11,000

Output format

【Stage】idea / positioning / theory / design / analysis / exhibits / writing / transparency / review / submit / rebut
【Area】Methods / Human / Nature-Society / Physical / General
【Type】Article / Forum / Commentary
【Route to】aaag-<skill>
【Why】one line
【Then】the next skill after that

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