car-topic-selection
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — testing fit with CAR's deliberately method-agnostic, all-topic-areas accounting scope and picking the research tradition (archival, experimental, analytical, field, qualitative) that the question demands.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill car-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 & CAR Fit (car-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have a phenomenon or dataset but no sharp accounting research question - You are unsure whether the topic fits CAR versus a narrower or non-accounting outlet - You cannot yet say which research tradition (archival, experimental, analytical, field, qualitative) the question requires - A coauthor asks "is this a CAR paper or a finance/economics paper?" ## What CAR is looking for CAR welcomes "interesting and intellectually rigorous work in **all topic areas of accounting**, using **any appropriate method**, and based in **any discipline or research tradition**." This is a genuine big-tent mandate: financial reporting, auditing and assurance, managerial/cost accounting, taxation, disclosure, accounting information in capital markets, governance, and accounting's role in organizations and society are all in scope. The defining test is therefore **not** method but whether the question advances understanding of **accounting** — its production, properties, use, or consequences. A question that merely uses accounting data to answer a pure-finance asset-pricing or pure-economics question is a weaker fit than one whos
- When to trigger
- What CAR is looking for
- Pick the research tradition the question demands
- Sharpen the question
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Fit pass for Contemporary Accounting Research
- Output format
What does the car-topic-selection skill do?
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — testing fit with CAR's deliberately method-agnostic, all-topic-areas accounting scope and picking the research tradition (archival, experimental, analytical, field, qualitative) that the question demands.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill car-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.