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This skill guides users through assessing the viability and timeliness of a research topic for a high-level policy journal. It evaluates whether a question meets stringent criteria—including first-order policy stakes, current global relevance, and empirical tractability—to be featured in a panel debate. It is essential for turning an academic idea into a publishable, policy-relevant narrative.

This guide provides a rigorous framework for evaluating finance research topics before writing begins. It helps authors ensure the topic is general-interest, practically relevant to decision-makers (CFOs, investors, regulators), highly topical, and genuinely original. It ensures the work meets the standards of top general-interest finance journals.

A comprehensive tool for sanity-checking research questions intended for Information Systems Research (ISR). It guides users to test the topic's fitness across four dimensions: IT-artifact centrality, sociotechnical framing, intradisciplinary potential, and level of analysis. It helps determine if the topic belongs in ISR or neighboring venues like MISQ or JMIS.

This guide helps researchers refine and elevate preliminary marketing findings into high-impact, publishable questions suitable for JAMS. It teaches the rigorous standards required for a question to be broad, theoretically generative, and managerially consequential, ensuring proper positioning against competing academic journals.

This guide assists researchers in elevating a simple observed 'effect' into a theoretically robust and conceptually advanced research contribution suitable for the Journal of Consumer Research (JCR). It provides frameworks for assessing interdisciplinary relevance, distinguishing between behavioral and interpretive genres, and ensuring the question genuinely advances existing consumer theory.

Guides researchers in determining if their IS-related research question is suitable for the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS). It helps shift the focus from purely technical or CS contributions to the managerial, economic, and organizational value of technology, focusing on the technology–organization–economics nexus. Ideal for pre-writing selection and ensuring fit before deep theory work.

This guide helps researchers determine if their core contribution is focused on measuring or refining a specific risk or uncertainty primitive (e.g., ambiguity attitudes, VSL, probability weighting). It provides a framework to assess scope fit and distinguish between behavioral anomalies, methodological findings, and foundational risk theory, ensuring the paper is positioned correctly for high-tier academic journals like JRU.

A comprehensive guide for researchers determining if their academic research topic is suitable for specialized journals like Management Science. It helps assess decision relevance, departmental fit, and cross-disciplinary appeal, ensuring the work meets high standards and avoids desk rejection.

This guide provides a critical framework for academic authorship targeting top-tier Operations Management journals. It instructs researchers on how to centralize the operational decision, select the appropriate analytical or empirical 'lane,' and correctly map the research question to a specific editorial department, ensuring the work meets the journal's core scope before any modeling or data analysis begins.

A comprehensive guide to help researchers pressure-test if their project aligns with the scope of Population and Development Review (PDR). It teaches how to frame research by connecting demographic processes (e.g., fertility, aging) to broader social, economic, or environmental development issues, ensuring the contribution has broad policy interest beyond narrow estimation.