rof-contribution-framing
Use when the marginal contribution of a Review of Finance (RoF) manuscript to the finance literature is fuzzy or undersold — turning a result into a defensible "what we now know that we did not" claim that a top-three-standard referee will accept.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rof-contribution-framing --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.
# Contribution Framing (rof-contribution-framing) ## When to trigger - A reader finishes the intro and asks "so what?" - The contribution is stated as "we study X" rather than "we show Y, which changes Z" - The paper's novelty is method or data, not a finance insight ## The RoF contribution bar RoF referees apply **top-three-finance-journal standards** and split reports into **(1) major concerns required for publication** and **(2) suggestions**. The contribution determines bucket (1): if the marginal finance insight is thin, no amount of robustness fixes the verdict. Because RoF runs a **two-round decision philosophy** and aims to decide by the second round, the contribution must be legible and defensible **in round one** — the editor will likely **ignore new round-two concerns** raised late. Frame it so the major-concern bucket has nothing to attack on the "is this interesting?" axis. ## Framing moves 1. **One-sentence claim** — "We show that [finding], implying [consequence for finance]." Quantify for empirical work; state the proposition crisply for theory. 2. **Counterfactual to the literature** — what did the field believe (or leave open) that this overturns, quantifies, or r
- When to trigger
- The RoF contribution bar
- Framing moves
- Bucket-1 pushback on the contribution — and the reply that survives
- Worked micro-example — rebuilding a flat claim
- Calibration — how accepted RoF papers stake claims (hedged)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the rof-contribution-framing skill do?
Use when the marginal contribution of a Review of Finance (RoF) manuscript to the finance literature is fuzzy or undersold — turning a result into a defensible "what we now know that we did not" claim that a top-three-standard referee will accept.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rof-contribution-framing --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.