rof-topic-selection
Use when judging whether a finance idea clears the Review of Finance (RoF) general-interest bar before any estimation or modeling — first-order question, fit with the journal's empirical-and-theoretical scope, and the top-three-finance-journal standard RoF referees apply.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rof-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 (rof-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - The question feels incremental or sub-field-only ("yet another anomaly") - You are unsure whether RoF (vs. a specialist field journal) is the right home - You have data or a model but no first-order finance question yet - You want to gauge fit before paying the submission fee ## The RoF bar RoF publishes **general-interest finance at the level of the top-three finance journals**, as the **official journal of the European Finance Association (EFA)**. Its referees are explicitly asked to **apply top-three-finance-journal standards**, so the screening question is "would this interest the broad finance audience and survive a top-three referee?" RoF is genuinely **both empirical and theoretical** — asset pricing, corporate finance, banking, household finance, microstructure on the empirical side; asset-pricing theory, security/contract design, microstructure theory on the theory side. A clean theoretical result with a sharp economic message fits as well as a credible empirical finding. ## Fit tests 1. **First-order question** — does the answer change how finance researchers think, not just add a decimal to a known coefficient?
- When to trigger
- The RoF bar
- Fit tests
- Two-candidate worked screen
- Where RoF-fit questions come from
- Pre-fee screening questions
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the rof-topic-selection skill do?
Use when judging whether a finance idea clears the Review of Finance (RoF) general-interest bar before any estimation or modeling — first-order question, fit with the journal's empirical-and-theoretical scope, and the top-three-finance-journal standard RoF referees apply.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rof-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.