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A comprehensive guide for authors submitting high-impact materials research. It details how to select expert referees (covering synthesis, device, and application domains) and provides actionable strategies to pre-empt common reviewer objections—such as claims of incremental advance, insufficient characterization, or weak benchmarking—thereby strengthening the manuscript's overall rigor and maximizing publication success.

A comprehensive guide for structuring high-impact scientific papers in advanced materials. It teaches authors how to build a cohesive narrative around a single central scientific advance, emphasizing the crucial causal chain: Structure → Property → Function. It also provides rules for optimizing the opening paragraph to serve as a self-contained abstract.

This guide provides rigorous standards for polishing scientific prose for high-impact materials journals. It focuses on improving narrative flow by emphasizing the structure-property-function argument, enforcing concision, standardizing materials nomenclature and units (SI), and eliminating hype-word inflation. Ideal for authors needing to transition a raw scientific draft into a polished, publishable manuscript.

This guide helps researchers determine if their applied microeconomics work meets the rigorous standards of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied). It serves as a pre-submission checklist, detailing the required depth of causal identification (e.g., RCTs, DiD, IV), methodological robustness, expected manuscript structure, and avoiding common desk-reject pitfalls. Essential for high-quality academic writing.

This skill guides authors through the rigorous requirements of American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. It helps evaluate whether an applied economics manuscript meets the journal's high bar, focusing specifically on the joint criteria of sound causal identification (DiD, IV, RDD) and clear, impactful policy relevance. Use it to re-frame arguments and check against best practices for policy evaluation.

This guide helps revise the prose, abstract, and introduction of applied economics manuscripts to conform to the high standards of AEJ: Applied. It teaches how to structure the paper by leading with the core finding and ensuring the economic question is clear in the first paragraph, transforming technical drafts into highly legible, journal-ready exposition.

This guide outlines the rigorous methodological standards for empirical identification in macroeconomics, crucial for submitting to top-tier journals. It covers advanced techniques such as Structural VAR (SVAR), Local Projections (LP), and handling high-frequency/micro-data shocks. It ensures authors explicitly defend the mapping from raw data to dynamic causal objects, addressing critical issues like endogeneity, anticipation, and structural breaks, and providing execution checklists for modern econometric tools (DiD, IV, RDD).

A comprehensive pre-submission strategy tool designed for authors submitting to top macroeconomics journals, such as AEJ: Macro. It helps authors anticipate and structure defenses against predictable, highly technical objections (e.g., identification flaws, robustness gaps, lack of breadth) raised by expert referees and co-editors. Use this guide to assess desk-reject risk, plan necessary robustness checks, and pre-emptively strengthen the manuscript before formal submission.

A comprehensive framework designed to rigorously test the stability of key macroeconomic findings. This program addresses potential biases arising from specification choices, sample periods (e.g., Great Moderation, ZLB, COVID breaks), and methodological variations (SVAR vs. LP). It ensures that the reported headline quantity remains robust even when challenged by a skeptical academic referee, providing a targeted defense rather than simply listing extra tables. Ideal for high-stakes empirical macro papers.

This skill acts as a comprehensive workflow router for manuscripts targeting the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro). It guides the researcher through the entire publication lifecycle—from initial topic selection and literature positioning, through rigorous quantitative modeling (DSGE, SVAR), empirical identification, writing, to final submission and rebuttal strategy. It ensures the final paper meets the high standards of modern macroeconomics research.

This comprehensive guide provides strict guidelines for revising academic manuscripts submitted to the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro). It focuses on ensuring the writing is clear, highly impactful, and accessible to a general macroeconomist, emphasizing the macro question and headline quantitative results immediately.

This comprehensive guide helps authors stress-test their manuscripts against the highly specialized and rigorous objections typically raised by expert referees for the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro). It provides a crucial checklist to pre-empt common criticisms regarding assumptions, theoretical positioning, proof completeness, and general contribution, significantly improving the manuscript's readiness for submission.