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This tool guides authors to assess whether their management or organizational research manuscript is suitable for the Academy of Management Review (AMR). It focuses on the journal's pure-theory nature, providing detailed checks on conceptual novelty, logical rigor, structural requirements, and identifying potential desk-reject risks for non-empirical, theory-building papers.

This guide teaches researchers how to structure a high-impact literature review for top-tier academic journals. It moves beyond merely summarizing recent empirical studies, focusing instead on establishing a deep theoretical lineage (e.g., earnings quality, audit theory), identifying specific, non-obvious research gaps, and clearly positioning the current study's unique contribution within the established academic discourse.

This skill serves as a comprehensive guide for authors targeting top-tier macroeconomics journals, such as the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. It analyzes a manuscript's fit, required methodology (e.g., DSGE, HANK, empirical identification), structural requirements, and common pitfalls (desk-reject heuristics). It is essential for researchers needing to refine their academic research and framing to meet rigorous journal standards.

This guide helps researchers strategically assess whether their empirical microeconomics project is best suited for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied). It provides a structured framework to test the project's causal design, scope, and cross-field appeal, ensuring the question is 'AEJ: Applied-shaped' rather than being too general (AER) or too specialized (Field Journal).

This guide provides a structured methodology for articulating the unique and marginal contribution of a scholarly paper, particularly within macroeconomics. It teaches authors how to bridge the gap between theoretical modeling (quantitative-theory) and data-driven evidence (identified-empirical), ensuring that the novelty and scope are clearly communicated to a broad, general expert audience.

A comprehensive guide for authors responding to major journal decisions (e.g., R&R or reject-with-comments) in economics. This skill teaches a systematic approach to triaging reviewer comments, structuring the rebuttal letter point-by-point, and ensuring revisions are supported by new empirical evidence rather than just prose. It focuses on maintaining academic rigor and professional communication.

This skill acts as a comprehensive workflow router for manuscripts targeting the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro). It guides the researcher through the entire publication lifecycle—from initial topic selection and literature positioning, through rigorous quantitative modeling (DSGE, SVAR), empirical identification, writing, to final submission and rebuttal strategy. It ensures the final paper meets the high standards of modern macroeconomics research.

This skill acts as a workflow router, guiding researchers through the entire manuscript lifecycle for submissions to American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro). It does not write the paper, but diagnoses the current bottleneck—whether it's topic selection, model refinement, empirical testing, or rebuttal strategy—and specifies which specialized aejmic-* sub-skill to invoke next, ensuring the paper aligns with the specific requirements of AEJ: Micro. Triggered when users are unsure what step to take next, or when revising based on reviewer comments.

A comprehensive guide for structuring academic arguments, specifically tailored to the high theoretical standards of top-tier journals like AJPS. It helps researchers transform initial ideas into a rigorous framework, defining core mechanisms, stating directional and testable hypotheses before results, and establishing clear scope conditions for empirical, formal, or methodological papers.

A comprehensive guide for conducting rigorous academic literature reviews. It teaches authors how to critically appraise and synthesize conflicting empirical evidence by weighing findings based on credibility, study design, and contextual differences. The framework ensures balance, maintains objectivity, and elevates the quality of academic scholarship.

A structured guide for academic researchers to scope and sanity-check research ideas for top-tier management journals like the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ). It ensures the topic is theory-driven, empirically feasible, and addresses a theoretical tension, helping authors elevate a vague idea into a publishable, impactful scholarly question.

This skill guides the stress-testing of theoretical manuscripts by focusing purely on logical coherence. It helps authors develop robust arguments by verifying proposition chains, running counterfactual thought experiments, addressing rival theories, and identifying disconfirming cases. It ensures the internal consistency and rigor of a theory, independent of empirical data analysis.