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A comprehensive guide to framing the contribution of a quantitative finance paper for highly selective journals like JFQA. It emphasizes extreme conciseness (e.g., 100-word abstract constraint) and the mandatory inclusion of explicit, measurable economic magnitudes (e.g., basis points, alpha changes) to ensure the research meets top-tier academic standards.

A detailed guide for authors submitting to the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA). It teaches how to precisely position a quantitative finance paper against the existing academic literature, moving beyond simple surveys to define a sharp, unique contribution gap for reviewers. Focuses on structuring the argument using a 'three-paragraph compression' method.

This guide helps researchers evaluate the core mechanism of their academic paper, determining whether the focus is fundamentally on financial mechanisms. It provides criteria for positioning the work along the macro-finance or micro-corporate finance line, and offers advice on suggesting alternative journals if the topic drifts into general industrial, accounting, or management fields.

This comprehensive framework guides financial researchers in structuring high-quality literature reviews for academic manuscripts. It moves beyond mere citation listing by enforcing a three-part narrative structure: tracing the global theoretical and mechanistic origins, contextualizing the discussion within local Chinese institutional settings, and precisely defining the novel contribution (the research gap). Mastering this process ensures a deep, scholarly dialogue between international theory and local empirical evidence.

This guide provides a structured framework for authors responding to reviewers' feedback for top-tier academic journals, especially in finance or economics. It emphasizes addressing methodological concerns (identification, causality, mechanisms) point-by-point, ensuring every response is backed by new evidence, and precisely locating changes in the revised manuscript.

This comprehensive guide helps academics transform raw financial data observations into rigorous and high-impact research questions suitable for top-tier finance journals. It teaches a structured methodology involving anchoring the core financial mechanism, integrating specific institutional contexts within China, and defining a clear incremental academic contribution.

A comprehensive guide for structuring and drafting response letters when facing major revisions or rejection (R&R) from top-tier academic journals, such as JHE. Teaches how to triage reviewer comments, address design credibility concerns, reconcile conflicting opinions, and present new evidence (estimates and bounds) in a professional, non-defensive manner.

A comprehensive guide for authors submitting to health economics journals, focusing on pre-submission pre-mortem analysis. It teaches how to anticipate specific, expert-level critiques—such as selection bias, concurrent confounding, or econometric limitations—and proactively structure the manuscript to neutralize these objections before they are raised by reviewers.

A comprehensive preflight guide for submitting manuscripts to the Journal of Health Economics (JHE) via Elsevier Editorial Manager. This checklist ensures compliance with specific journal requirements, covering single-anonymization, data availability statements, keyword formatting, and required declarations (e.g., funding, AI usage). Use it as the final check before pressing submit.

This guide provides a rigorous framework for researchers to determine if their work constitutes a genuine health-economics contribution for a specialized journal like JHE. It moves beyond simply having health data, instead focusing on whether the core economic mechanism relates to insurance design, provider incentives, market structure, or health behaviors. It helps refine the research question and position the paper against other related fields.

This style guide helps authors structure and write manuscripts for health economics journals, specifically addressing the unique needs of specialist reviewers. It focuses on ensuring the policy relevance, the empirical contribution, and the institutional grounding of the research are immediately clear, particularly in the abstract and introduction.

This guide provides detailed structural and stylistic rules for polishing academic manuscripts intended for high-impact journals, such as the Journal of Human Resources (JHR). It instructs authors on structuring the abstract, writing results paragraphs, translating coefficients into policy-relevant units, and compressing long-form content to adhere to strict page limits, ensuring the core policy lesson is immediately visible.