respol-methods
Use when research design, identification, or measurement is the bottleneck for a Research Policy (RP) manuscript — choosing and defending a method (patent/bibliometric, causal policy evaluation, survey, case study, or mixed) appropriate to an innovation-studies claim. Sets the design; it does not execute the estimation/coding (respol-data-analysis).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill respol-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.
# Methods (respol-methods) ## When to trigger - The design is a default (OLS + controls, or a single case) and a referee questions whether it can support the claim - A patent or bibliometric indicator is used as if it transparently measures "innovation" or "knowledge" - A policy-evaluation paper rests on before/after comparison without an identification strategy - A survey reports correlations vulnerable to common-method bias or selection - A mixed-methods paper is really two studies stapled together with no integration logic ## The Research Policy methods bar: pluralism with construct discipline RP privileges **no single technique** — econometrics, bibliometrics/patent analysis, surveys, case studies, and mixed methods are all first-class — but it demands that the method *fit the innovation-studies claim* and that **constructs be defended**. The recurring RP failure is not weak statistics; it is treating an indicator (patents, citations, R&D spend) as if it were the latent thing (invention, knowledge flow, innovation effort). State what each measure does and does not capture, and design around its known biases. ## Design paths by method ### Patent / bibliometric quantitative - **C
- When to trigger
- The Research Policy methods bar: pluralism with construct discipline
- Design paths by method
- Patent / bibliometric quantitative
- Causal policy evaluation (R&D subsidies, missions, IP reform)
- Survey (firm innovation behavior, CIS-style)
- Case study / qualitative
- Mixed methods
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the respol-methods skill do?
Use when research design, identification, or measurement is the bottleneck for a Research Policy (RP) manuscript — choosing and defending a method (patent/bibliometric, causal policy evaluation, survey, case study, or mixed) appropriate to an innovation-studies claim. Sets the design; it does not execute the estimation/coding (respol-data-analysis).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill respol-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.