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This guide helps researchers assess if a corporate finance question is suitable for the Journal of Corporate Finance (JCF). It provides a framework to determine if the topic fits the journal's empirical or theoretical remit (e.g., governance, M&A, financial structure) and advises on the optimal article format (full-length vs. shorter paper). It serves as a critical self-check against common academic rejection pitfalls.

This tool helps researchers explicitly articulate the theoretical contribution of their manuscripts for submission to top-tier journals like JCR. It guides the user through framing the contribution as Advancing, Deepening, or Repudiating existing consumer theory. It is essential for drafting the mandatory Consumer Relevance and Contribution Statement (≤300 words), ensuring the claim is conceptual, interdisciplinary, and focused on consumer understanding, rather than just managerial outcomes.

This tool serves as a comprehensive workflow router for authors targeting the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO). It guides users through the entire academic writing process, from initial topic selection and literature positioning to experimental design, robustness checks, and rebuttal strategy, ensuring the manuscript meets the unique methodological requirements of behavioral economics.

This tool guides researchers in evaluating whether their economic project topic is suitably specialized and ambitious for elite, growth-focused academic journals. It helps users frame their research question around core growth mechanisms, such as human capital accumulation, endogenous growth theory, or institutional dynamics, ensuring the work meets the standard of a "first-order growth question."

This tool provides a comprehensive pre-submission checklist designed for authors submitting survey papers (either a proposal or a full draft) to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) via the AEA portal. It ensures compliance by verifying JEL codes, disclosure statements, data availability, and adherence to style guides, helping authors finalize their submission package.

This tool helps refine academic survey articles to adopt the authoritative and accessible "JEL voice." It focuses on improving prose structure, ensuring the narrative flows for non-specialist economists, and structuring the introduction and abstract according to academic conventions. It transforms summary writing into synthesis dialogue, making complex topics engaging for a broad audience.

A comprehensive guide for authors preparing manuscripts for top-tier academic journals, especially in finance (e.g., The Journal of Finance). It details how to anticipate potential objections from handling editors and expert referees, covering areas like identification credibility, robustness checks, and general interest framing. This tool helps optimize the paper's structure pre-submission to maximize acceptance chances.

This comprehensive guide provides a detailed preflight checklist for submitting academic manuscripts to the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE). It walks authors through critical steps covering formatting standards (e.g., abstract length, citation style), ensuring anonymity, managing mandatory code/data deposits, and verifying submission requirements such as fees and target portals. Use this tool to ensure your paper is submission-ready.

This tool guides researchers in scoping and rigorously testing a research topic for submission to top-tier finance journals, such as the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE). It helps users refine an economic question, establish a novel contribution, identify plausible causal links, and assess the paper's depth against high academic standards (e.g., Jensen or Fama-DFA prizes). It is crucial for transforming a general academic idea into a publishable, high-impact manuscript.

This comprehensive guide provides a final preflight checklist for submitting manuscripts to academic journals like JFI via Editorial Manager. It covers mandatory components, including the submission fee, abstract word limits, keyword requirements, Generative AI declarations, and Option C data plans. It serves as a critical gatekeeping tool to ensure the manuscript meets all technical and procedural standards before final submission.

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.

This specialized tool guides researchers in critically evaluating if an academic idea or dataset qualifies as a genuine, theory-contributing international-business phenomenon. It implements a rigorous multi-gate test, analyzing the phenomenon, level of analysis, international theory contribution, and cross-national variation needed for high-impact publishing in journals like JIBS.