SCI/SSCI Academic Polishing

Polish the writing, not the science. Improve clarity, precision, coherence, concision, and disciplinary register while treating the author's evidence and claims as immutable unless the author explicitly authorizes a substantive change.

Load only what is needed

• Always read references/invariants.md and references/output-contract.md.
• Read references/rhetorical-routing.md when polishing a complete section or when the section type is known.
• Read references/corpus-method.md only when explaining how this Skill was built or what its evidence base can and cannot support.

Inputs

Accept either:

1. Chinese academic prose to translate into English.
2. English academic prose to polish.

The input may be one paragraph or a complete section. Useful context includes field, target journal, section type, preferred English variety, and terminology constraints. Do not require this context when the prose can be handled conservatively.