# yzhao062/cs-paper-checklist

A final sanity checklist to help your CS paper get accepted, not desk rejected.

Repository: https://github.com/yzhao062/cs-paper-checklist
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cs-paper-checklist
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-05-25T18:10:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 57/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 84, release rhythm 35, longevity 34
- inputs: {"age_days": 485, "days_push": 100, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1613, forks 146 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:11.167552+00:00)

## What it is
A curated checklist for sanity-checking the writing quality, structure, and presentation of computer science papers before conference or journal submission. It provides concrete, actionable reminders covering titles, abstracts, introductions, related work, citations, and common pitfalls that lead to desk rejection.

## Use cases
- check my paper before submitting to a conference
- avoid desk rejection of my cs paper
- review checklist for academic paper writing
- guide for writing a good abstract and title
- sanity check citations and related work section
- prepare a machine learning paper submission

## When to choose
- you are preparing a CS conference or journal submission and want a final pre-submission review
- you are an advisor or reviewer giving students a concrete writing-quality rubric
- you want a living, opinionated checklist of common paper pitfalls

## When to avoid
- you need automated linting or tooling rather than a manual checklist
- you need guidance for non-CS academic writing or non-English papers
- you need help with the research itself rather than its presentation

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: education, tutorials, documentation, awesome-lists
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: academic-writing, paper-checklist, peer-review, conference-submission, research-guide

## Member repositories
- yzhao062/cs-paper-checklist (main) score 57

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:11.167552+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:51:08.292960+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/yzhao062/cs-paper-checklist (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:11.167552+00:00, sha daf59a954979)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.