mgsci-topic-selection

npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill mgsci-topic-selection --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

# Topic Selection & Fit (mgsci-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - The idea is interesting but you cannot name the **Department** it belongs to - You are unsure whether it fits **Management Science** or a sister INFORMS journal - A reviewer or Department Editor said "off fit" or "better suited elsewhere" - You have a method looking for a question, or a result with no decision implication ## The Management Science bar Management Science publishes work whose unifying test is **methodological rigor plus a demonstrated contribution to management/business decision-making that travels across departments**. It is deliberately **bimethodological**: a clean **analytical model** (OR/optimization, stochastic processes, game/economic theory) and a sharp **empirical study** (econometrics, experiments, behavioral, data science) are *equally* at home — but each must deliver a generalizable managerial insight, not just a technical result. Ask three questions before investing: 1. **Decision relevance.** What management decision changes if the result holds? A model with no managerial reading, or an empirical fact with no decision lever, is off-mission. 2. **Which Department?** Name it: Accounting;