jim-topic-selection
Use when choosing or auditing a research question for a Journal of International Marketing (JIM) manuscript — testing whether the international dimension is the theoretical core and whether JIM beats sibling outlets. It vets the question; jim-theory-development builds the mechanism.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jim-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 (jim-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - An idea exists but nobody has tested whether it is *internationally* interesting or merely set abroad - The dataset covers several countries and the temptation is to let the data pick the question - A domestic finding is being considered for "extension" to new markets - The team cannot decide among JIM, JIBS, IMR, JWB, and Journal of Marketing ## The JIM gate: the border must do theoretical work JIM's editorial identity is built around one test. Ask it before anything else: > **If this study were run inside a single country, would the research question still make sense?** If yes, the paper is not yet a JIM paper. The cross-national element — differences in culture, institutions, market development, regulation, consumer sophistication, or firm resources across borders — must be what *generates* the prediction, not what decorates the sample. Three acceptable shapes: 1. **Cross-national variation as moderator.** A marketing mechanism is theorized to strengthen, weaken, or reverse across countries for reasons stated *before* seeing the data (e.g., trust-based appeals working differently under weak contract enforcement). 2. **
- When to trigger
- The JIM gate: the border must do theoretical work
- Stress tests before committing
- Domains where JIM currently lives
- Sibling boundary — say why JIM and not…
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jim-topic-selection skill do?
Use when choosing or auditing a research question for a Journal of International Marketing (JIM) manuscript — testing whether the international dimension is the theoretical core and whether JIM beats sibling outlets. It vets the question; jim-theory-development builds the mechanism.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jim-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.