jom-topic-selection
Use when shaping or screening a research question for the Journal of Operations Management (JOM) — testing whether operations is genuinely at the heart of the question, whether the work can be empirical, and which of JOM's 12 Departments should route it (vs. analytical OM venues like M&SOM / Management Science / Operations Research).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jom-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 & JOM Fit (jom-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have an OM or supply-chain idea but are unsure it fits JOM rather than an analytical OM journal - Operations appears only as the *setting* of the study, not the phenomenon under investigation - You cannot yet name an empirical observation that would anchor the study - You do not know which JOM Department your paper belongs to ## The JOM fit test JOM publishes **original, empirical operations management research with academic and practical relevance**, where **operations are at the heart of the research question, not just in the context**. Apply four screens before investing: 1. **Operations-as-heart.** The dependent or focal phenomenon must be an operations or supply-chain phenomenon — production, service delivery, inventory, quality, projects, sourcing, logistics, sustainability/social operations, healthcare delivery. If you could swap operations for any other setting and the question survives, it is context, not heart — fix this first. 2. **Empirical mandate.** JOM does **not** publish purely analytical models or optimization techniques ("these belong in operations research, industrial engineering, or anal
- When to trigger
- The JOM fit test
- Department routing (choose early)
- Anti-patterns
- The four-screen fit gate
- Desk-reject triggers this stage prevents
- Worked vignette: screening a sustainability-operations idea
- Referee and editor scope signals
- Output format
What does the jom-topic-selection skill do?
Use when shaping or screening a research question for the Journal of Operations Management (JOM) — testing whether operations is genuinely at the heart of the question, whether the work can be empirical, and which of JOM's 12 Departments should route it (vs. analytical OM venues like M&SOM / Management Science / Operations Research).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jom-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.