misq-methods
Use when choosing and defending the research design for a MIS Quarterly manuscript — a behavioral survey/experiment, an economics-of-IS identification strategy, a design-science build-and-evaluate cycle, or an organizational/qualitative design. Matches the method to the IS claim and the manuscript category; it designs the study and hands estimation/evaluation to misq-data-analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill misq-methods --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.
# Research Design & Methods (misq-methods) ## When to trigger - You have a theory or design propositions but no defensible way to test/evaluate them - The method may not match the tradition or the claim (e.g., a causal claim with a correlational design) - A reviewer asks "how do you know the artifact works?" or "what identifies this effect?" - You need to decide what fits inside the category page limit (which counts everything) ## Match the design to the tradition and claim MISQ spans four traditions, so there is no single mandated method. Pick the design that the claim requires. | Tradition | Typical designs | The design must establish | |-----------|-----------------|----------------------------| | **Behavioral** | Lab/online experiment, field experiment, multi-wave survey, panel | Internal validity, construct validity, and (for surveys) procedural remedies for common-method bias | | **Design science** | Build-and-evaluate of an IT artifact | That the artifact is novel and useful for a real problem — utility demonstrated, not asserted | | **Economics of IS** | Natural experiment, DiD, IV, RD, structural model | A credible identification strategy for the causal/economic effect | |
- When to trigger
- Match the design to the tradition and claim
- Design science: plan the evaluation up front
- Behavioral and economics: design out the threats early
- Mind the page budget
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the misq-methods skill do?
Use when choosing and defending the research design for a MIS Quarterly manuscript — a behavioral survey/experiment, an economics-of-IS identification strategy, a design-science build-and-evaluate cycle, or an organizational/qualitative design. Matches the method to the IS claim and the manuscript category; it designs the study and hands estimation/evaluation to misq-data-analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill misq-methods --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.