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This guide teaches authors how to strategically position their research contribution for top-tier management journals. It emphasizes moving beyond simple 'gap-spotting' to 'problematization'—challenging existing assumptions within a focused academic conversation. It also provides detailed advice on how to differentiate the work from contributions appropriate for sibling journals (AMJ, SMJ, etc.), significantly boosting publication chances.

This guide teaches advanced academic writers how to structure their papers by positioning their thesis within an ongoing, live scholarly debate. It emphasizes engaging with the strongest, canonical versions of existing views, rather than summarizing literature or attacking strawmen. It helps authors define the precise gap their work fills and state their unique contribution clearly.

This skill guides researchers on how to structurally position a Marketing Science manuscript within its academic literature. It requires defining the model's baseline (modeling lineage) and the specific business problem it addresses (substantive stream). Crucially, it teaches how to frame the contribution as a concrete field gain rather than merely pointing out an existing knowledge gap.

This skill guide teaches how to use a CLI tool to programmatically create, modify, and validate complex Excel (.xlsx) files. It covers everything from building robust financial models and dashboards to parsing raw data and ensuring the output adheres to professional standards, including zero formula errors and proper print layouts. Ideal for data engineering and business intelligence workflows.

This comprehensive guide outlines the entire lifecycle of submitting and revising academic papers for major conferences like OOPSLA. It details strategic decisions, such as choosing between October or March submission rounds, managing the state machine (Accept, Minor, Major Revision, Reject), budgeting time for necessary revisions, and planning post-publication artifacts and talks. Essential for academic research teams.

A comprehensive guide for authors to pinpoint the unique quantitative contribution (the 'delta') of their manuscript. It teaches how to articulate the specific gap closed relative to prior empirical, structural, and methodological work, ensuring the paper is correctly positioned for target journals like QE, distinguishing it from related fields.

A comprehensive guide for drafting a structured, point-by-point rebuttal letter in response to major/minor research policy revisions. It teaches how to synthesize conflicting referee comments into a coherent plan, defend core innovation claims with evidence, and manage the handling editor's expectations, ensuring the original contribution is protected throughout the revision process.

A comprehensive methodology guide for qualitative researchers in sociology. It teaches how to move beyond mere description by systematically extracting, defining, and bounding core concepts from empirical field materials. This process involves iterative dialogue between observations and existing sociological theory, ensuring the concept is theoretically robust and transferable.

This skill activates 'Steno Mode,' providing highly compressed, expert-level responses by eliminating filler words and superfluous tokens (up to 40% reduction). It maintains absolute technical precision, making it ideal for technical communications like code reviews, debugging Q&A, and architecture summaries. Users can select four defined levels (lite, brief, court, machine) to control the density, with exactness always taking top priority.

A comprehensive guide for accounting researchers on refining and scoping a high-quality research question suitable for top-tier journals like The Accounting Review (TAR). It teaches critical criteria, including ensuring the question is accounting-centered, methodologically identifiable, and makes a significant theoretical contribution, while also advising on the best fit among competing academic venues (TAR vs. JAR/JAE).

A detailed guide for authors writing the policy implications section of high-level financial research journals. It teaches how to transform abstract academic findings into concrete, actionable policy recommendations for monetary authorities, regulators, and financial institutions, ensuring suggestions are evidence-based, avoid vague generalizations, and specify clear mechanisms and boundaries.