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This tool guides researchers in evaluating whether their economic project topic is suitably specialized and ambitious for elite, growth-focused academic journals. It helps users frame their research question around core growth mechanisms, such as human capital accumulation, endogenous growth theory, or institutional dynamics, ensuring the work meets the standard of a "first-order growth question."

This comprehensive workflow guides researchers through the entire lifecycle of submitting a specialized academic paper to the Journal of Economic Growth (JEG). It maps out critical stages, from initial topic selection and literature positioning to rigorous data analysis, writing style adherence, and the post-submission review and rebuttal process. Essential for structuring theoretical, empirical, or mixed growth macroeconomics papers.

A comprehensive guide for polishing academic manuscripts intended for the Journal of Economic Growth (JEG). It instructs authors on structuring arguments around core growth mechanisms, translating raw econometric coefficients into meaningful growth language (e.g., convergence, productivity), and applying specific metadata and citation standards (APA, JEL codes) required by top-tier journals in development economics.

This comprehensive guide provides advanced methodological strategies for authors submitting to the Journal of Economic Geography (JEG). It addresses critical challenges in establishing causal inference using spatial data, such as spatial autocorrelation, spillover effects (SUTVA violations), and structural elasticity identification. It covers modern techniques for spatial DID, Network Equilibrium Models (NEG), and qualitative case studies, ensuring methodological rigor.

This guide provides advanced strategies for positioning a research contribution within the complex academic landscape of Economic Geography. It emphasizes that strong positioning must bridge multiple, distinct scholarly frontiers (e.g., quantitative-spatial economics and evolutionary geography) rather than focusing on a single literature, ensuring the work meets the rigorous standards of top-tier journals.

A comprehensive guide for authors responding to major revisions on highly selective, cross-disciplinary journals (like JEG). It teaches how to structure a rebuttal letter that successfully addresses conflicting feedback from referees—balancing econometric rigor with regional geographic context—ensuring the core contribution remains intact.

A comprehensive guide for authors submitting manuscripts to cross-disciplinary journals (e.g., Economics and Geography). It details how to anticipate and pre-emptively address systematic objections from two distinct scholarly communities, ensuring the paper satisfies both rigorous quantitative methods and deep spatial theory. Use this when your work bridges two fields and needs to survive double-anonymous review.

A comprehensive guide for authors in spatial economics on conducting rigorous robustness checks. It systematically addresses common spatial threats—such as the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP), spatial weight matrix sensitivity, and spatial autocorrelation—to ensure published results are scientifically sound and not artifacts of the data definition or model specification. Essential for high-level academic submissions.

A comprehensive preflight checklist for submitting manuscripts to the Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) via Oxford University Press (OUP). This guide ensures authors meet strict academic standards, including double-anonymous scrubbing, adherence to word/abstract limits, proper ORCID inclusion, and correct formatting for successful initial review.

This guide provides essential best practices for presenting spatial evidence in academic papers, particularly in economic geography. It emphasizes that maps and tables must make an explicit argument—show variation, spatial discontinuity, or gradients—rather than merely decorating the data. Learn how to properly report spatial model coefficients, handle projections, and avoid common cartographic and statistical pitfalls.

A comprehensive guide for authors publishing in economic geography journals, detailing how to structure manuscripts to satisfy both economic and geographical communities. It provides methodological advice on transitioning between formal NEG/quantitative-spatial models and conceptual/evolutionary frameworks, ensuring that the underlying mechanisms and assumptions are transparent and testable.

A comprehensive academic guide for refining research questions intended for the Journal of Economic Geography (JEG). It implements a rigorous "two-community test," ensuring the topic successfully bridges geographical economics (quantitative models) and human geography (place-based studies). Use this checklist before major data collection to validate the mechanism and justify the spatial role of the research.