jar-topic-selection
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for a Journal of Accounting Research (JAR) manuscript — testing whether it is a real accounting question with a credible setting, JAR fit, and identification potential before any data work begins. Locks the question; it does not build the mechanism (jar-theory-development) or design the test (jar-methods).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jar-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 & JAR Fit (jar-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have a dataset or a setting but not yet a question that matters for accounting - You are unsure whether the idea fits JAR versus TAR, JAE, RAST, or CAR - The question is "is X correlated with Y?" with no clear stakes for accounting - You are deciding whether to target the **Ray Ball JAR Annual Conference** or the **Registered Reports** track ## What JAR is looking for JAR publishes original research in all areas of accounting and accounting-related topics, drawing on finance, economics, statistics, psychology, and sociology. The journal's gravitational center is **empirical-archival capital-markets** research in the **Ball-Brown** tradition: how accounting information is produced, disclosed, audited, and used by investors, analysts, creditors, regulators, and managers. A JAR-fit question almost always (a) concerns an accounting/disclosure/auditing/standard-setting phenomenon, (b) lives in a setting with a **credible source of identifying variation** (a standard change, a regulation, a discontinuity, a shock), and (c) has clear **economic stakes** — it changes how we think information flows into prices, contr
- When to trigger
- What JAR is looking for
- The fit test (run before collecting data)
- Sourcing strong JAR questions
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jar-topic-selection skill do?
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for a Journal of Accounting Research (JAR) manuscript — testing whether it is a real accounting question with a credible setting, JAR fit, and identification potential before any data work begins. Locks the question; it does not build the mechanism (jar-theory-development) or design the test (jar-methods).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jar-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.