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A comprehensive guide designed to assess whether a research topic meets the high standards required for an Annual Review of Economics (ARE) article. It requires the field to demonstrate maturity, broad academic importance, and a clear need for an accessible synthesis, guiding the user to frame the work around an animating question rather than just a topic label.

This guide serves as a specialized workflow router for authors writing invited review articles for the Annual Review of Economics (ARE). It maps the entire lifecycle, from initial topic selection and proposal framing to systematic literature synthesis, framework imposition, evidence appraisal, and final revision, ensuring the resulting article is authoritative and comprehensive.

This guide details the critical process of revising a scholarly review article following feedback from journal editors or peer reviewers (e.g., ARPsych). It provides a structured methodology for addressing coverage gaps, ensuring balance, correcting inaccuracies, and maintaining the integrity of the manuscript's core argument (the 'spine'). It covers everything from point-by-point response letters to handling final copyediting queries.

This comprehensive preflight checklist is designed for authors submitting a commissioned review article to Annual Reviews of Psychology (ARPsych). It guides users through critical compliance checks, ensuring adherence to assigned length, proper reference formatting, securing figure permissions, completing conflict-of-interest disclosures, and verifying the transparency and reproducibility of any embedded meta-analysis or literature search. It serves as the final quality assurance step before formal publishing submission.

This skill guides the creation of high-impact exhibits—conceptual frameworks and synthesis tables—essential for academic review articles. It teaches how to structure complex literature, making the core argument (the "spine") visible and allowing readers to grasp the field's overall landscape through visual organization, rather than just through descriptive text. Focus is on organization and synthesis.

This guide helps researchers determine if a psychology topic is academically mature, important, and ready for a comprehensive review article suitable for an Annual Review publication. It provides a structured framework to scope the topic, ensuring it is bounded, current, and proposes a new organizing idea rather than merely summarizing existing knowledge.

This guide serves as a comprehensive router for authors preparing an invited review article for the Annual Review of Psychology (ARPsych). It outlines the systematic, multi-stage process, guiding authors through topic selection, literature synthesis, framework development, writing style refinement, and final submission/revision, ensuring the final piece is authoritative and comprehensive.

This guide provides comprehensive strategic advice for authors contributing review articles to the Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc). It covers how to negotiate the scope of the review with the Editorial Committee, anticipate the specific rigor checks performed by academic reviewers (e.g., completeness, balance, framework), and manage the complex production timeline. It is essential for ensuring the manuscript meets the high standards of academic rigor and balance required for top-tier sociological publications.

A comprehensive guide for authors on how to successfully propose or accept an invitation to write a review article for the Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc). It details the unique commissioning-driven process, outlining what constitutes a Committee-ready topic pitch. Learn how to structure your pitch, including the organizing spine, provisional conclusions, and strategic steps to maximize your chances of being commissioned.

A comprehensive guide for authors revising academic review articles, particularly for high-stakes journals. It teaches structured methods for addressing common referee feedback, such as coverage gaps, balance complaints, structural weaknesses, and accessibility issues. Use this guide to transform critical feedback into a robust, publishable revision plan, ensuring methodological transparency and scholarly rigor.

A comprehensive checklist for the final preflight checks of the Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc) article. This guide ensures compliance with publisher requirements, covering disclosure statements, reference formatting, figure permissions, and critical transparency obligations for coverage accounts and meta-analyses. It serves as the last quality gate before final submission.

This guide helps researchers determine if a sociology literature topic is suitable for an Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc). It evaluates the topic against four rigorous criteria: Maturity, Broad Importance, Need for Synthesis, and Tractability. It is used to frame authoritative, cross-subfield review articles, guiding authors beyond mere topic labeling to identifying the core animating question.