research-policy
Use when targeting Research Policy or deciding whether an innovation-studies / science-technology-policy manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill research-policy --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 Policy (research-policy) ## Journal positioning Research Policy, published by Elsevier, is the flagship journal of innovation studies — the interdisciplinary field studying the production, diffusion, and exploitation of science, technology, and innovation, and the policies and institutions that shape them. It draws on economics, management, sociology, geography, and political science, but it is not a pure management journal: the unit of interest is innovation and the systems, organizations, and policies around it. Research Policy rewards a clear contribution to innovation studies grounded in strong evidence or rigorous conceptual work, with relevance to science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy. The audience is innovation scholars across disciplines, so a paper must speak to the innovation conversation, not a narrow firm-strategy or general-management debate. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Elsevier / Research Policy site and the submission system. ## When to trigger - The author names Research Polic
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the research-policy skill do?
Use when targeting Research Policy or deciding whether an innovation-studies / science-technology-policy manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill research-policy --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 984 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.