ijoc-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a project is computing-first enough for an INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC) submission and which of its 10 technical areas fits. Scopes the contribution to the OR↔computing interface; it does not invent results or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ijoc-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 (ijoc-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have an OR/analytics result and are unsure whether the **computing is the contribution** or merely the vehicle - You cannot say which of IJOC's **10 technical areas** the paper belongs to, or it straddles two - The work could plausibly go to *Operations Research*, *Management Science*, *Mathematical Programming Computation*, or an ACM/IEEE venue and you need to decide - A coauthor wants the "is this an IJOC paper?" call before any writing starts ## The IJOC scope test IJOC sits at the **intersection of OR/MS and computer science**. A paper passes the scope test only if the **computational and/or methodological advance is the headline** — a new algorithm, a sharper formulation, a learning method that helps an OR task, a simulation or computational-probability method, or tooling that changes what OR practitioners can compute. Run the four questions in order; a "no" on Q1 usually means a different journal. 1. **Is the news computational/methodological, not the application?** "We solved a logistics problem with CPLEX" is not IJOC; "we designed a decomposition that solves an order-of-magnitude larger logistics instance" i
- When to trigger
- The IJOC scope test
- Choosing the technical area
- Sibling boundary — pick the right venue
- Rescuing a borderline topic
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ijoc-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a project is computing-first enough for an INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC) submission and which of its 10 technical areas fits. Scopes the contribution to the OR↔computing interface; it does not invent results or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ijoc-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 984 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.