asq-topic-selection
Use when judging whether a research idea fits Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) and has the *surprising* theoretical insight ASQ demands. Sharpens the puzzle and the contribution claim; it does not design the study or write theory sections.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill asq-topic-selection --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Topic Selection & Fit (asq-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have an interesting phenomenon but are unsure it rises to an ASQ-level *puzzle* - The idea feels descriptive ("X happens in organizations") rather than surprising - You can describe a finding but not yet say why a smart org-theory reader would be wrong about it - You are choosing between ASQ and AMJ/SMJ/Organization Science as a home ## What ASQ rewards ASQ publishes deep, often **counterintuitive** insight about organizations and the social structures around them. Since its 1956 founding (by James D. Thompson at Cornell), the journal has prized organizational ideas drawn from sociology, psychology, political science, economics, anthropology, and management — not a single home discipline. The bar is not "is this interesting?" but "**does this change how we understand organizing?**" A finding that merely raises firm performance (the SMJ test) or cleanly tests a hypothesis in a new sample (a common AMJ profile) is not yet an ASQ paper. Fit test — a strong ASQ paper usually has all four: 1. **A puzzle, not a topic.** There is a tension, anomaly, or contradiction that existing theory cannot explain or predicts the o
- When to trigger
- What ASQ rewards
- Sharpening the puzzle
- Method follows the question
- Contribution claim (one paragraph)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the asq-topic-selection skill do?
Use when judging whether a research idea fits Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) and has the *surprising* theoretical insight ASQ demands. Sharpens the puzzle and the contribution claim; it does not design the study or write theory sections.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill asq-topic-selection --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.