jep-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a topic is right for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) — broadly interesting, timely, and synthesizable for non-specialists — rather than a narrow research contribution. Judges venue fit; it does not draft the article or the proposal.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jep-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 for JEP (jep-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have an idea and are unsure it belongs in JEP versus a research journal or JEL - A topic feels important to you but you cannot say why a non-specialist economist should care - The "article" is really a single new result looking for a home - You want to gauge whether a cluster of topics could anchor a symposium ## The JEP fit bar JEP publishes **accessible synthesis for a broad audience of economists**, readable by **90 percent or more of the AEA membership** (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). A JEP topic is judged on four axes — a topic must clear all four, not just one. | Axis | Pass | Fail | |------|------|------| | **Breadth of interest** | A labor, macro, or finance economist who does not work on this would still want to read it | Only specialists in one subfield care | | **Timeliness / "why now"** | A live debate, a maturing literature, a policy moment, or a method whose lessons have spread | A topic equally publishable five years ago or five years hence with no hook | | **Synthesizability** | There is a *body* of work to distill into a through-line and a few takeaways | A single new finding with nothing yet to synthes
- When to trigger
- The JEP fit bar
- Sibling and neighbor disambiguation
- Symposium lens
- Checklist
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jep-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a topic is right for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) — broadly interesting, timely, and synthesizable for non-specialists — rather than a narrow research contribution. Judges venue fit; it does not draft the article or the proposal.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jep-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.