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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.

This comprehensive guide details how to build a robust, credible, and shareable replication package for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript. It focuses heavily on documenting spatial data provenance, handling version control for boundaries and projections, and scripting complex spatial joins to preempt reproducibility concerns, even though JEG's policy is post-acceptance.

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.

This router guides researchers through the complex process of preparing a manuscript for the Journal of Economic Geography (JEG). It determines the optimal sequence of specialized skills needed at each stage—from initial topic selection, theoretical modeling, and robustness checks to drafting a rebuttal. It is designed to ensure the paper meets the unique interdisciplinary standards required to satisfy both economic and geographical reviewers.

This guide provides essential stylistic rules for writing academic manuscripts intended for interdisciplinary audiences, specifically bridging economics and geography. It helps authors structure their arguments, translate complex technical apparatus into prose, and ensure the spatial contribution is legible to both economic and geographical scholars without diluting the core findings.

This guide teaches researchers how to accurately assign JEL (Journal of Economic Literature) classification codes to academic surveys. It details the three-level taxonomy structure, guiding users to select the primary field code, relevant method codes, and adjacent subject codes to ensure proper indexing and scope mapping within the American Economic Association's subject map.

A comprehensive guide for calibrating the balance between coverage and emphasis when conducting literature surveys (JEL surveys). It provides guidelines for structuring the corpus by tiers, ensuring fair representation of all academic schools and controversies, and avoiding self-promotion bias.

A comprehensive guide for authors commissioning or revising a literature survey for the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL). It provides strategies for negotiating the survey's scope with the editor, anticipating critical questions from expert referees (e.g., balance, completeness, framework), and planning for major revision rounds. Essential for high-level academic writing.