The official data availability policy, replication package requirements, and verification tools for the China Economic Review (CER). This repository contains the CER Data and Code Availability Policy (v2), compliance checklist, frequently asked questions, and Claude Code skills for automated README checking and replication package verification. Aligned with the Data and Code Availability Standard (DCAS) and the Social Science Data Editors' Template README.
- CER Data and Code Availability Policy v2 — The complete policy document. Aligned with the Data and Code Availability Standard (DCAS) and the SSDE Template README.
- Frequently Asked Questions — Detailed Q&A covering tier selection, CSMAR/WIND licenses, raw data definitions, DOI publishing timeline, and more.
- CER Data and Code Availability Statement & Checklist — Mandatory compliance checklist for all CER submissions (PDF).
These skills can be installed and used by authors and the Data Editor to verify replication packages.
Check a README file against CER policy requirements. Produces a structured compliance report with 40+ checks across 9 categories.
Install: Copy skills/cer-readme-check/ to ~/.claude/skills/cer-readme-check/
Automated replication package verification: (1) inspect folder structure and file organization, (2) detect and fix absolute paths, (3) trace data lineage for each intermediate data file, (4) run the full replication pipeline, (5) compare generated results against provided outputs.
Install: Copy skills/cer-reproduce-check/ to ~/.claude/skills/cer-reproduce-check/
# Install skills
cp -r skills/cer-readme-check ~/.claude/skills/
cp -r skills/cer-reproduce-check ~/.claude/skills/
# In Claude Code, run:
/cer-readme-check path/to/README.pdf
/cer-reproduce-check path/to/replication_package/Submit replication packages to: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/cer
Ruochen Dai
Associate Professor, Central University of Finance and Economics
Data Editor, China Economic Review
dairuochenpku@gmail.com