cscw-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a project belongs at CSCW — is the group, community, or organization the real unit of analysis? — and running the routing decision against CHI, ICWSM, DIS, GROUP, TOCHI, and social-science journals before any drafting or platform account setup begins.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cscw-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.
# CSCW Topic Selection CSCW publishes human-centered research on technology that supports or reshapes social, cooperative, and collaborative practice. The venue test is not "does this involve people and computers" — nearly everything does — but **whether the paper's explanatory action happens at the level of a group, community, organization, or network**. Run this decision before writing, because the framing it produces changes the introduction, the methods, and even which platform you submit through. ## The unit-of-analysis test Ask three questions of the project's core claim: 1. **Who is the protagonist?** If the sentence "we show that ___" is completed by a team, a community, a moderation crew, a platform's user population, or an organization, CSCW is plausible. If it is completed by "users" as interchangeable individuals, you are probably describing a different venue's paper. 2. **What does the technology mediate?** CSCW cares about coordination, division of labor, governance, trust, awareness, and collective sense-making. A faster or prettier interaction with no social consequence is not the venue's question. 3. **Would the finding survive a platform swap?** Strong CSCW work s
- The unit-of-analysis test
- The routing decision
- Contribution kinds CSCW's own canon rewards
- Decision procedure
- Fit verdict format
What does the cscw-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a project belongs at CSCW — is the group, community, or organization the real unit of analysis? — and running the routing decision against CHI, ICWSM, DIS, GROUP, TOCHI, and social-science journals before any drafting or platform account setup begins.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cscw-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.