jimf-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a question belongs at the Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) and how to frame it as international monetary/financial economics. Tests scope and the international margin; it does not invent evidence, exemplars, or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jimf-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 (jimf-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - A finance/macro question is forming and you must decide whether JIMF is the right outlet vs. JIE, JME, JMCB, or JFE - The paper has a result but the **international/open-economy margin** is implicit or decorative - A referee or coauthor says "this is interesting, but is it *international money and finance*?" - You need a domestic result repackaged for an international audience — and want to know if that repackaging is real or cosmetic ## The JIMF "does it belong here?" test JIMF publishes work where the **international or cross-border dimension is load-bearing**, not a robustness footnote. The litmus test: if you removed the open-economy element (the exchange rate, the cross-border flow, the foreign monetary shock, the sovereign external position), would the paper collapse or merely lose a section? If it merely loses a section, you have a domestic paper with international garnish — route it to JME/JMCB/JFE instead. JIMF's core objects are exchange-rate dynamics and pass-through, capital-flow drivers (push vs. pull) and the global financial cycle, cross-border banking and the international transmission of monetary policy,
- When to trigger
- The JIMF "does it belong here?" test
- Where this sits in the workflow
- How to frame the question for JIMF
- Reframing a domestic result for JIMF (when it is honest)
- Sizing the contribution
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Referee pushback mapped to the topic fix
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jimf-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a question belongs at the Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) and how to frame it as international monetary/financial economics. Tests scope and the international margin; it does not invent evidence, exemplars, or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jimf-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.