PNAS Workflow Router (pnas-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It does not replace any specialized skill. It tells you which pnas- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).

PNAS publishes across three broad divisions — Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences — and every research article is filed under one of them plus a minor subject area (pnas-writing). Two things make PNAS unlike Science or Nature and reshape the workflow: the submission track decision (Direct vs Contributed by an NAS member — pnas-track) and the mandatory Significance Statement (pnas-significance). Settle the track early; it changes how the paper is handled and reviewed.

When to trigger

• "What should I do next with this draft?"
• A draft arrives and you must diagnose the current bottleneck.
• The user is unsure whether to use Direct or Contributed submission.
• Reviews arrive from PNAS and you need to switch into rebuttal mode.

The single most important gate

PNAS is selective but more accepting than Science or Nature: it values solid, important science, not only the flashiest top-1% result. The first question is still "is this broadly significant and high-quality enough for a general scientific readership?" — but a strong, rigorous, important paper that is not the splashiest discovery of the year still has a real home here. Route to pnas-fit first, always; it also handles the realistic step-down from Science/Nature.