the-economic-journal
Use when targeting The Economic Journal (EJ) or deciding whether a general-interest economics 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 the-economic-journal --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.
# The Economic Journal (the-economic-journal) ## Journal positioning The Economic Journal (EJ) is the long-established general-interest journal of the Royal Economic Society, publishing broad applied and theoretical economics just below the top-5 tier. The paper that wins here has a clear question, a sound method, and a result of general interest — accessible and consequential to a wide economics readership rather than only to one subfield. The audience is the broad profession, so the contribution should read as something an economist outside your field would want to know. 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 publisher's own site or submission system. ## When to trigger - The author names EJ (or a strong general-interest journal just below the top-5) as the target venue. - A paper has a sound design and broad interest, and the author is choosing between EJ and a top field or general-interest venue. - A solid field paper needs re-framing so the contribution reads as broadly interesting rather than niche. - The author needs
- 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 the-economic-journal skill do?
Use when targeting The Economic Journal (EJ) or deciding whether a general-interest economics 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 the-economic-journal --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.