Skill UI

This guide teaches researchers how to rigorously assess a topic's geographic significance and determine its optimal fit within the Annals of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). It implements a two-part fit test—ensuring the argument is fundamentally geographic (space/place/scale are load-bearing) and possesses sufficient reach to interest neighboring subfields. It guides authors in choosing the correct area (e.g., Human, Physical, Methods) and appropriate journal venue (Annals vs. specialty). Use this when defining a project scope, overcoming reviewer critiques, or deciding wher...

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).

A comprehensive guide to assessing the fit of a macroeconomics research paper for top-tier journals, particularly the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro). It helps researchers determine if their work possesses the required broad interest, quantitative discipline, and policy relevance to succeed at AEJ: Macro, versus more specialized venues like AER, JME, or RED. This framework guides strategic academic writing.

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.

This guide helps researchers assess whether their complex project contains a single, crisp, general-interest insight suitable for short-format academic journals. It provides a rigorous framework to filter out multi-result papers, ensuring the core contribution is publishable, significant, and self-contained.

This guide helps researchers assess whether their education topic has broad significance for a general journal like AERJ, and how to define the dominant research lens (Policy, Teaching, Development, etc.). It provides a structured methodology for sharpening focus and improving academic framing.

This skill provides a comprehensive, end-to-end workflow guide for academic journal submissions, specifically tailored for Acta Electronica Sinica (AES). It maps the entire publishing journey—from topic selection and research design to submission, review tracking, revision, and final publication—into a structured timeline. It helps authors manage complex decision points, adhere to strict deadlines (like the 6-month response window), and avoid common pitfalls, ensuring a systematic approach to high-stakes scholarly publishing.

This guide helps researchers assess the optimal venue for their work, determining if their project aligns best with AISTATS, or if it is better suited for major ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR), UAI, or specific statistics journals. It emphasizes the need for strong statistical foundations, inference guarantees, and the unique intersection of AI, ML, and statistics before starting the writing process.

This skill provides a rigorous framework for political scientists to pre-test their research projects against the standards of the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS). It evaluates whether a topic has a sharp, generalizable question, demonstrates strong causal identification, provides a substantive theoretical contribution, and fits the appropriate submission type (Article, Research Note, Correspondence). Use this before committing significant time to writing.

This skill serves as the central workflow router for manuscripts submitted to the American Journal of Sociology (AJS). It guides authors through the entire academic lifecycle, from initial topic selection and theoretical framing to research design, data analysis, and final submission/rebuttal. It helps authors determine the appropriate next step based on the manuscript type (research article, comment, reply) and current stage, ensuring the work meets AJS's high standard for theoretical ambition and sociological dialogue.

This comprehensive framework guides researchers on assessing the suitability of a candidate literature topic for a high-impact, integrative academic review (e.g., Annals). It requires the topic to pass five critical criteria—Maturity, Importance, Fragmentation, Integrability, and Tractable Scope—ensuring the resulting review addresses a profound 'problem with the field' and proposes a forward-looking agenda, rather than just summarizing existing knowledge.