jie-topic-selection
Use when checking whether a paper fits the Journal of International Economics (JIE) scope and clears its originality gate — trade patterns and commercial policy, exchange rates, open-economy macro, international finance, sovereign debt, factor mobility, spatial economics, and whether the motivation or modelling structure is original. Tests fit; it does not pick your topic for you.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jie-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 (jie-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You are deciding whether a paper belongs at JIE vs a general-interest or domestic-field journal - The international-economics angle is unclear or bolted-on - You are unsure your motivation or model is original enough to clear JIE's gate ## JIE's scope JIE publishes work across the whole of international economics — **both international trade and international macroeconomics/finance**. In-scope topics, per the journal's stated scope, include: trade patterns and commercial policy; international institutions; exchange rates; open-economy macroeconomics; country/regional growth and development; international finance; international pricing; sovereign debt; international factor mobility; spatial economics; and international monetary and fiscal theory and policy. A paper must have a genuine **international dimension** — a closed-economy labor or public-finance result, however clean, is off-fit unless the cross-border mechanism is central. ## The originality gate JIE accepts both empirical and theoretical work, but only if it is **original in its motivation or modelling structure**. This is the screen that desk-rejects roughly a
- When to trigger
- JIE's scope
- The originality gate
- Two-sided fit check
- Anti-patterns
- Scope-fit decision table
- Desk-reject patterns this gate catches
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jie-topic-selection skill do?
Use when checking whether a paper fits the Journal of International Economics (JIE) scope and clears its originality gate — trade patterns and commercial policy, exchange rates, open-economy macro, international finance, sovereign debt, factor mobility, spatial economics, and whether the motivation or modelling structure is original. Tests fit; it does not pick your topic for you.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jie-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.