isr-topic-selection
Use when shaping or sanity-checking a research question for Information Systems Research (ISR) — testing sociotechnical, intradisciplinary fit, IT-artifact centrality, the level(s) of analysis, and whether the question belongs at ISR versus MISQ, JMIS, or Management Science. Locks the question and genre; it does not build the mechanism (isr-theory-development).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill isr-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 & ISR Fit (isr-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have a phenomenon, dataset, or analytical model but are unsure it is an ISR question - The idea may be "IT-adjacent" rather than genuinely about the design, use, valuation, or impact of IT - You are choosing between ISR and a neighboring venue - A colleague says "interesting, but is this IS, or just OB/econ/CS done with IT data?" ## The ISR fit test ISR is receptive to phenomena on the **design, management, use, valuation, and impacts of information technology**, examined at **multiple levels of analysis** — individuals, groups, firms, networks, societies, and nations. Pressure-test on four dimensions: 1. **IT-artifact centrality.** The IT artifact (a system, platform, algorithm, digital infrastructure, data product) must shape the mechanism, not just supply the setting or the data. If you could swap "IT" for "any tool" and the story survived, fit is weak. 2. **Sociotechnical framing.** ISR prizes work where the **social and the technical co-constitute** the phenomenon. Pure-technical (a CS systems paper) or pure-social (an OB paper that happens to use platform data) questions sit at the edge of fit. 3. **In
- When to trigger
- The ISR fit test
- Choose your genre early — ISR houses two co-equally
- Fit vs. neighboring venues
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Fit pass for Information Systems Research
- Output format
What does the isr-topic-selection skill do?
Use when shaping or sanity-checking a research question for Information Systems Research (ISR) — testing sociotechnical, intradisciplinary fit, IT-artifact centrality, the level(s) of analysis, and whether the question belongs at ISR versus MISQ, JMIS, or Management Science. Locks the question and genre; it does not build the mechanism (isr-theory-development).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill isr-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.