jais-contribution-framing
Use when sharpening the theoretical contribution of a Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) manuscript — stating what the paper adds to IS knowledge, matching the contribution claim to the chosen category, and making it legible to a pluralistic, theory-forward reviewer pool. Frames and tests the contribution; it does not build the theory (jais-theory-development) or run the analysis (jais-data-analysis).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jais-contribution-framing --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.
# Contribution Framing (jais-contribution-framing) ## When to trigger - Results exist but the "so what for IS theory" is thin, implicit, or generic - A Senior Editor or reviewer says "the contribution is unclear" or "this is incremental" - The contribution you claim does not match the category you submitted to - You can describe what you *did* but not what the field now *knows* that it did not - You are unsure whether the contribution is theoretical, methodological, or empirical — and JAIS prizes the first two explicitly ## What "contribution" means at JAIS JAIS exists to publish "innovative, interesting and rigorously developed conceptual and empirical contributions" and to "encourage theory based multi- or inter-disciplinary research." Two things follow. First, **theory and method are contributions in their own right** here — more than at most siblings, a paper whose payoff is a new theory, framework, or methodological advance is welcome on its own terms. Second, "interesting" is doing real work in that sentence: JAIS rewards a contribution that is generative and a little surprising, not a confirmatory increment to a settled question. State the contribution as *what the field now
- When to trigger
- What "contribution" means at JAIS
- Match the contribution claim to the category
- "Interesting" is a JAIS criterion, not a flourish
- Frame it in one auditable sentence
- Name the type of theoretical contribution
- Separate the theoretical from the empirical and managerial
- Checklist
- Referee pushback mapped to the framing fix
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jais-contribution-framing skill do?
Use when sharpening the theoretical contribution of a Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) manuscript — stating what the paper adds to IS knowledge, matching the contribution claim to the chosen category, and making it legible to a pluralistic, theory-forward reviewer pool. Frames and tests the contribution; it does not build the theory (jais-theory-development) or run the analysis (jais-data-analysis).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jais-contribution-framing --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.