jar-contribution-framing
Use when turning empirical results into an explicit contribution to accounting knowledge for a Journal of Accounting Research (JAR) manuscript — stating what we now know about how accounting information is produced, disclosed, audited, or used, and why it matters economically. Frames the contribution; it does not run the analysis (jar-data-analysis) or polish prose (jar-writing-style).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jar-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 (jar-contribution-framing) ## When to trigger - You have clean, identified results but the "so what for accounting" is thin - A referee says "the contribution is incremental" or "this confirms what we knew" - The discussion section restates results without stating what we learned - You need intro and discussion contribution sentences that survive referees ## What counts as a contribution at JAR JAR rewards research that changes our understanding of **how accounting information is produced, disclosed, audited, regulated, or used in markets and contracts**. A publishable contribution typically does one of: (a) identifies a previously unestablished **causal** effect of an accounting/disclosure/regulatory feature; (b) **adjudicates** between competing economic theories using a setting that separates them; (c) documents an economically important **mechanism** (not just a reduced-form correlation); or (d) introduces a **new measure or setting** that reopens a literature. The increment must be economically consequential — for investors, analysts, creditors, auditors, standard-setters, or managers — not merely statistically detectable. ## Write the contribution expli
- When to trigger
- What counts as a contribution at JAR
- Write the contribution explicitly
- Match the framing to the track
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Before/after: the contribution sentence
- Worked magnitude translations (referees want to feel the effect)
- Track-fit checklist
- Output format
- Resources
What does the jar-contribution-framing skill do?
Use when turning empirical results into an explicit contribution to accounting knowledge for a Journal of Accounting Research (JAR) manuscript — stating what we now know about how accounting information is produced, disclosed, audited, or used, and why it matters economically. Frames the contribution; it does not run the analysis (jar-data-analysis) or polish prose (jar-writing-style).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jar-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.