Skill UI

A comprehensive guide for researchers writing for top-tier journals like JFI. It teaches authors how to structure the introduction and related-work sections by clearly positioning their contribution against the established frontier of banking and financial intermediation. It emphasizes identifying the specific mechanism gap, citing the two to four closest antecedent papers, and distinguishing the work from adjacent financial fields.

This guide helps researchers evaluate the core mechanism of their academic paper, determining whether the focus is fundamentally on financial mechanisms. It provides criteria for positioning the work along the macro-finance or micro-corporate finance line, and offers advice on suggesting alternative journals if the topic drifts into general industrial, accounting, or management fields.

This guide provides a rigorous framework for researchers to determine if their work constitutes a genuine health-economics contribution for a specialized journal like JHE. It moves beyond simply having health data, instead focusing on whether the core economic mechanism relates to insurance design, provider incentives, market structure, or health behaviors. It helps refine the research question and position the paper against other related fields.

This tool guides researchers on whether their academic topic aligns with the scope of an empirical microeconomics journal, specifically the Journal of Human Resources (JHR). It emphasizes that the research must focus on policy-relevant, causal questions in core fields (e.g., labor, health, education), strictly differentiating it from purely organizational behavior or 'HR management' studies. It serves as a critical gatekeeper before formal submission.

A specialized guide for articulating the originality of international economics manuscripts, specifically tailored for journals like JIE. It teaches authors how to structure their contribution by focusing on whether the novelty lies in the motivation (new data/fact) or the modeling structure (new mechanism), ensuring the work passes the journal's rigorous originality gate for both trade and international macro/finance fields.

This skill guides authors on how to sharply position their research contributions within highly specialized academic fields, such as international economics. Instead of writing a broad survey, it helps define a precise 'delta'—the unique gap, mechanism, or data set—relative to the most relevant frontier papers. Ideal for defining the novelty and scope of an academic manuscript for top-tier journals.

This guide details how to assemble a comprehensive, reproducible replication package for academic manuscripts, especially in fields relying on complex institutional data (e.g., court records, contracts). It mandates creating a one-command master script, documenting the entire data pipeline from raw sources to final exhibits, and providing detailed protocols for hand-coded variables and data provenance. The goal is to ensure that any researcher can perfectly reproduce every finding.

This guide helps authors frame their academic contributions within highly specialized fields like monetary policy, DSGE modeling, and financial intermediation. It teaches how to precisely define the novel element (shock, mechanism, or counterfactual) relative to the closest prior work, ensuring the manuscript is viewed as an advance, not a mere survey. Ideal for preparing submissions to top-tier economics journals.

This guide teaches authors how to position their manuscripts for highly interdisciplinary academic journals. It instructs authors on framing their contribution by engaging multiple academic fields (sociology, psychology, demography) to identify the precise theoretical or empirical gap, demonstrating a clear 'move' in the family science literature, rather than just listing related works.

A comprehensive framework for analyzing and presenting algorithmic contributions in academic papers. It guides users beyond mere computational speed, requiring rigorous proof of complexity (Big O), convergence (rate and conditions), or approximation bounds (rho). Essential for optimizing and validating complex computational models in scientific fields.

This guide provides comprehensive standards for structuring rigorous academic manuscripts, especially those in quantitative or mathematical fields. It emphasizes unifying notation (one symbol, one meaning), explicitly stating all assumptions, and separating core statements from lengthy proofs to maximize readability for journal reviewers.

This guide provides a structured framework for revising a manuscript after a 'revise-and-resubmit' (R&R), particularly for multi-paradigm fields like communication studies. It focuses on strategic academic writing: mapping conflicting reviewer demands (e.g., post-positivist vs. critical), managing the strict page budget (e.g., 35-page limit), and structuring the response memo to the editor-in-chief. It emphasizes framing the response as a principled trade-off rather than simply adding content.