eer-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a question is a fit for the European Economic Review (EER) — general-interest across all of economics — rather than a field journal, JEEA, or The Economic Journal. Diagnoses fit and reframes for breadth; it does not build the identification or the model.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eer-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 (eer-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You are unsure whether the paper is "EER-shaped" or belongs in a field outlet - A reviewer/colleague said the question is "too narrow" or "of interest only to specialists" - You are choosing among EER, JEEA, The Economic Journal, or an Elsevier field journal - The contribution reads as an incremental field increment, not a broad-interest result ## The EER fit bar EER is **Elsevier's general-interest European economics journal** (founded 1969), publishing **all fields, theory and empirical**. The defining test is **breadth of interest**: would an economist *outside* your subfield find the question, the answer, or the method worth knowing? EER is not Europe-restricted in topic (the name is institutional), and it is not a methods-first journal — it wants a substantive economic result that travels. Calibrate against the desk-reject filter: editors screen out-of-scope or low-novelty work **before review** (and the submission fee is non-refundable), so the breadth case must be visible on page one. ## Fit decision table | Signal | Reading | Move | |--------|---------|------| | Result changes how non-specialists think about
- When to trigger
- The EER fit bar
- Fit decision table
- EER vs. its siblings (where does this paper go?)
- Reframing a narrow question for EER breadth
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the eer-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a question is a fit for the European Economic Review (EER) — general-interest across all of economics — rather than a field journal, JEEA, or The Economic Journal. Diagnoses fit and reframes for breadth; it does not build the identification or the model.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eer-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.