review-of-financial-studies
Use when targeting Review of Financial Studies (RFS) or deciding whether a finance 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 review-of-financial-studies --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.
# Review of Financial Studies (review-of-financial-studies) ## Journal positioning The Review of Financial Studies is published by the Society for Financial Studies and, with JF and JFE, one of the finance "top-3." It is the top-3 outlet most associated with methodological innovation — new methods, new theory, and new ways of looking at asset pricing and corporate finance — and it runs a registered-reports track for hypothesis-driven empirical work. The readership is the whole finance profession, so a paper must matter beyond its niche and ideally push the methodological or conceptual frontier. 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 SFS / RFS / Oxford site and the editorial submission system. ## When to trigger - The author names RFS (or the finance top-3) as the target venue. - A finance paper introduces a new method, a new theoretical angle, or a methodologically innovative empirical design, and the author is choosing among JF / JFE / RFS. - The author is considering RFS's registered-reports track for a pre-specified, hypo
- 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 review-of-financial-studies skill do?
Use when targeting Review of Financial Studies (RFS) or deciding whether a finance 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 review-of-financial-studies --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.