finman-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a topic fits Financial Management (FM) and is worth aiming there — testing the question for general-interest finance relevance, topicality, and managerial/market payoff before the literature and design work begins. Sets the target; it does not run analysis or write the paper.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill finman-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 (finman-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have a finance result or idea and are unsure FM is the right home (vs. a specialist or a top-3 outlet) - A coauthor asks "is this *general-interest* enough, or too niche, for FM?" - The question feels technically sound but you cannot yet say why a practitioner or a non-specialist finance academic would care - The topic feels dated — re-treading a settled debate rather than a live one ## The FM topic bar FM is the FMA's **general-interest** finance journal, and its editors are unusually explicit about taste: they want "academic articles that people actually read," judged on **originality, rigor, timeliness, practical relevance, and quality**, with **less weight on trivial robustness** and real weight on whether the paper "provokes and furthers debate." Translated into a topic filter, an FM-worthy question is one a corporate-finance, asset-pricing, banking, *or* markets reader would all find interesting, that speaks to a decision a manager, investor, regulator, or trader actually faces, and that is **topical** — anchored to a current or emerging financial issue rather than a marginal extension of a 2008 debate. The j
- When to trigger
- The FM topic bar
- Deciding whether the topic is FM-shaped
- Topic signals by FM subfield
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Early routing decisions this stage settles
- Reframes that rescue a borderline topic
- Output format
What does the finman-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a topic fits Financial Management (FM) and is worth aiming there — testing the question for general-interest finance relevance, topicality, and managerial/market payoff before the literature and design work begins. Sets the target; it does not run analysis or write the paper.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill finman-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.