misq-topic-selection
Use when shaping or stress-testing a research question for MIS Quarterly — confirming it is a genuine information-systems question, naming which of the four IS traditions (behavioral, design science, economics, organizational) it lives in, and choosing the matching manuscript category before any data are collected or any artifact is built.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill misq-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 & Genre Fit (misq-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - The idea is interesting but you are not sure it is an *IS* question versus a generic management, marketing, or CS question - You have a dataset, a platform, or a model and need a question worth a MISQ slot - You cannot yet say which tradition the paper belongs to, or which submission category fits - A colleague says "this could go to MISQ" and you need a fit test before committing months of work ## Is it an information-systems question? MISQ publishes research on the development, use, impact, management, and economics of information technology — IT-based services, the management of IT resources, and the use and impact of IT with managerial, organizational, and societal implications. The IT artifact (a system, algorithm, platform, data, or digitally enabled practice) should be **central**, not incidental. If the technology could be swapped for "any treatment" without changing the theory, the paper is probably not an IS paper. ## Name the tradition — it decides everything downstream | Tradition | The paper's job | Typical category | |-----------|-----------------|------------------| | **Behavioral** | Explain/p
- When to trigger
- Is it an information-systems question?
- Name the tradition — it decides everything downstream
- Choose the matching manuscript category
- Fit test (answer all)
- The "swap test" for IT centrality, worked
- Worked category selection
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the misq-topic-selection skill do?
Use when shaping or stress-testing a research question for MIS Quarterly — confirming it is a genuine information-systems question, naming which of the four IS traditions (behavioral, design science, economics, organizational) it lives in, and choosing the matching manuscript category before any data are collected or any artifact is built.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill misq-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.