qje-topic-selection
Use when scoping or pressure-testing a research question for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) submission — checks fit, the "big idea" bar, and breadth of the takeaway for QJE's general-interest readership. Diagnoses scope fit; it does not design the empirics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill qje-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 & Fit (qje-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have data or a result but the "so what?" is unclear - You are unsure whether the idea is top-5 material or a field-journal paper - The question is narrow, technical, or interesting only to specialists - You can describe what you *did* but not the *broad lesson* it teaches ## The QJE bar: a big question with a broad answer QJE i
What does the qje-topic-selection skill do?
Use when scoping or pressure-testing a research question for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) submission — checks fit, the "big idea" bar, and breadth of the takeaway for QJE's general-interest readership. Diagnoses scope fit; it does not design the empirics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill qje-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.