msom-topic-selection
Use when shaping or stress-testing a research question for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) — confirming an operations decision is central, choosing the analytical-vs-empirical lane, and matching the question to the right editorial Department before any modeling or data work begins.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill msom-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 & M&SOM Fit (msom-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have a problem idea but are unsure it belongs in M&SOM versus a general OR or strategy venue - A senior co-author asks "where is the operations decision here?" - You must pick which of the six editorial Departments your work targets - You are deciding whether to pursue this as an analytical model or an empirical study ## The operations-centrality gate M&SOM's defining screen is that an **operations decision or problem is central to the contribution**, not a backdrop. The journal covers the **design, procurement, production, delivery, and recovery of goods and services**. A strong analytics, pricing, marketing, or finance paper that merely *uses* an operational setting is routinely desk-screened. Before anything else, write one sentence: *"The operational decision is ___, the tradeoff is ___, and the operational lever is ___."* If you cannot, the topic is not yet M&SOM-ready. ## Choose the lane (and the journal will route by it) M&SOM publishes **both** analytical/stochastic modeling (optimization, queueing, stochastic models, game theory, revenue management) **and** empirical OM / data-driven analytics. P
- When to trigger
- The operations-centrality gate
- Choose the lane (and the journal will route by it)
- Match to a Department (this is fit)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Fit pass for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
- Fit screen before you commit (illustrative)
- Referee-pushback patterns and the venue fix
- Output format
What does the msom-topic-selection skill do?
Use when shaping or stress-testing a research question for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) — confirming an operations decision is central, choosing the analytical-vs-empirical lane, and matching the question to the right editorial Department before any modeling or data work begins.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill msom-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.