jru-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a question belongs in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) and how to frame it as a risk/uncertainty primitive. Tests scope fit and sibling boundaries; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jru-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 (jru-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have a behavioral or decision result and are unsure JRU is the right home rather than a method-general or broad-behavioral venue - The question is phrased as "people do X" but does not yet name a **risk or uncertainty primitive** (a utility curvature, a probability-weighting parameter, an ambiguity attitude, a VSL, an insurance elasticity) - A coauthor wants to "add a risk angle" to a paper whose core object is really a market, a game, or a generic nudge - The draft could plausibly go to JRU, Experimental Economics, JEBO, or Theory and Decision and the team needs the boundary drawn ## What JRU actually rewards JRU's center of gravity is the **economics of decision-making under risk and uncertainty**: expected utility *and its descendants* (prospect theory, rank-dependent / cumulative prospect theory, ambiguity and Knightian uncertainty), the **measurement** of risk and ambiguity preferences, the **value of a statistical life** and other risk-money tradeoffs, and **insurance, precaution, and intertemporal risk**. A JRU paper's contribution is a sharper *representation*, a cleaner *measurement*, or a more credible *esti
- When to trigger
- What JRU actually rewards
- How to re-anchor a borderline paper
- What gets desk-screened at JRU
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Drawing the four sibling boundaries precisely
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jru-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a question belongs in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) and how to frame it as a risk/uncertainty primitive. Tests scope fit and sibling boundaries; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jru-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.