Skill UI

A comprehensive guide for structuring and refining academic research topics in Public Administration. It assists users in moving from broad, vague domains to concrete, theory-grounded, and publishable research questions. The guide emphasizes theoretical positioning, defining distinct contributions, and matching the paper's nature to appropriate academic journals.

A comprehensive guide for structuring the literature review in Comparative Political Studies (CPS) papers. It teaches authors how to move beyond simply citing sources by identifying a specific, contested academic debate, framing the gap as a falsifiable claim, and naming the rival theories that the paper's evidence must adjudicate. Focuses on establishing cross-regional comparative leverage.

Provides a comprehensive framework for defending the methodological rigor of comparative social science research. This skill guides users through establishing comparative leverage, whether in cross-national panel data, case-based comparisons, or natural experiments. It emphasizes techniques like causal inference, process tracing, and ruling out rival theoretical accounts to strengthen the study's claims.

This guide assists in developing robust theoretical arguments for Comparative Political Studies (CPS). It teaches how to refine a descriptive puzzle into a portable, testable mechanism by defining a core causal process, establishing clear scope conditions (where the theory holds and fails), predicting observable implications, and demonstrating comparative statics. The goal is to elevate local findings into generalizable, widely applicable theories.

This guide helps researchers determine if their topic is suitable for a comparative politics journal (CPS) and how to frame its comparative contribution. It outlines the necessary components—such as comparative leverage, portability, and theoretical mechanisms—required to elevate a single-case study into a generalizable argument.

This comprehensive orchestrator guides authors through the entire manuscript lifecycle for Comparative Political Studies (CPS). It is designed to ensure that the paper maintains a genuinely comparative argument—across countries, regions, or time—at every stage, routing the user to the correct next skill (e.g., theory building, research design, data analysis). It does not generate content; it directs the scholarly workflow.

This guide provides rigorous methodology and theoretical frameworks for conducting heterogeneity analysis, particularly for academic manuscripts focused on rural Chinese economies. It outlines criteria for dimension selection (e.g., household endowment, regional environment, policy timing), ensuring theoretical justification, and setting minimum sample size requirements to avoid superficial findings and common pitfalls.

This comprehensive guide assists researchers in drafting high-quality, structured literature reviews for top-tier academic journals in rural economics, such as China Rural Economy. It emphasizes shifting from a simple 'listing' format to a nuanced, 'dialogue-based' scholarly discussion. Key areas covered include balancing Chinese and international literature, establishing theoretical frameworks, and clearly articulating the manuscript's unique academic contribution and gap.

This guide assists researchers targeting top journals like China Rural Economy (CRE). It provides a structured self-check process for manuscripts, ensuring the topic strictly adheres to the "Three Rural Issues" scope, establishes deep theoretical grounding, and articulates clear, multi-faceted marginal contributions suitable for high-impact academic publication.

This guide helps authors reposition their research contributions by framing them within existing theoretical traditions and live academic debates. It moves beyond mere literature summarization, showing how the work makes a measurable 'move' in the field, satisfying both specialized and interdisciplinary readership expectations.

Detailed guidance for authors submitting to top-tier academic journals (especially in Criminology) that require a Revise-and-Resubmit (R&R). This guide teaches authors how to structure a professional response letter, reconcile conflicting interdisciplinary reviewer demands, and strategically defend the paper's core theoretical contribution while ensuring scientific rigor and reproducibility.

This skill guides authors through defending complex research designs in Criminology. It covers advanced quantitative methods (e.g., DiD, IV, RDD, fixed effects), longitudinal analyses, and qualitative case studies. It teaches how to establish causal identification, address selection bias, and argue against rival theories, ensuring methodological rigor for high-impact academic submissions.