jeg-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a project is a first-order economic-growth question that fits the Journal of Economic Growth (JEG) — a specialist Springer Nature outlet for growth and dynamic macroeconomics, not a general-interest journal. Screens scope, ambition, and theory/empirics fit before writing.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jeg-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 (jeg-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - Before committing months to a project you hope to send to JEG - When unsure whether your question is "growth enough" for a specialist outlet - When a referee or colleague has said the paper "isn't really about growth" ## The JEG scope gate JEG publishes theoretical and empirical research in **economic growth and dynamic macroeconomics**. A paper fits when the *dependent phenomenon is long-run growth, development, or the dynamics that drive them*, not when growth is a side outcome. In-scope cores include: - Neoclassical and **endogenous growth** (R&D, ideas, increasing returns) - **Human capital** accumulation, education, and skill formation - **Fertility**, the demographic transition, and unified growth theory - **Trade and growth**; **financial development** and growth - **Migration**, technological change, and structural transformation - The **political economy of growth** and institutions; OLG models ## Calibrate ambition to a specialist (not general-interest) outlet JEG does not require a paper to interest all of economics, but it does demand a **first-order growth question** answered with either real theoretical nove
- When to trigger
- The JEG scope gate
- Calibrate ambition to a specialist (not general-interest) outlet
- Decision aids
- Anti-patterns
- Borderline-fit triage
- Worked vignette — stress-testing a deep-determinants idea
- Output format
What does the jeg-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a project is a first-order economic-growth question that fits the Journal of Economic Growth (JEG) — a specialist Springer Nature outlet for growth and dynamic macroeconomics, not a general-interest journal. Screens scope, ambition, and theory/empirics fit before writing.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jeg-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.