A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question is a fit for the European Economic Review (EER) — general-interest across all of economics — rather than a field journal, JEEA, or The…

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Install Eer Topic Selection

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eer-topic-selection -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills eer-topic-selection --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/European-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/eer-topic-selection .claude/skills/eer-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
eer-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
535 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question is a fit for the European Economic Review (EER) — general-interest across all of economics — rather than a field journal, JEEA, or The…

  • Works in 4 steps: Name the general mechanism, not the… → State the first-order quantity or… → Show portability — one sentence on what… → …
  • The Economic Journal
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The EER fit bar, Fit decision table and EER vs. its siblings (where…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Eer Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a question is a fit for the European Economic Review (EER) — general-interest across all of economics — rather than a field journal, JEEA, or The Economic Journal. Diagnoses fit and reframes for breadth; it does not build the identification or the model.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The Economic Journal

Example prompts

  • “/eer-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Name the general mechanism, not the local application ("how search frictions blunt pass-through," not "prices in one retail chain").
  2. State the first-order quantity or theoretical object a generalist cares about.
  3. Show portability — one sentence on what the result implies beyond your setting.
  4. Lead with the answer, not the dataset or estimator.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Eer Topic Selection loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 75 tokens; SKILL.md has 535 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~75
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 535 words, ~1,157 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/eer-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
eer-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a question is a fit for the European Economic Review (EER) — general-interest across all of economics — rather than a field journal, JEEA, or The Economic Journal. Diagnoses fit and reframes for breadth; it does not build the identification or the model.

Topic Selection & Fit (eer-topic-selection)

When to trigger

  • You are unsure whether the paper is "EER-shaped" or belongs in a field outlet
  • A reviewer/colleague said the question is "too narrow" or "of interest only to specialists"
  • You are choosing among EER, JEEA, The Economic Journal, or an Elsevier field journal
  • The contribution reads as an incremental field increment, not a broad-interest result

The EER fit bar

EER is Elsevier's general-interest European economics journal (founded 1969), publishing all fields, theory and empirical. The defining test is breadth of interest: would an economist outside your subfield find the question, the answer, or the method worth knowing? EER is not Europe-restricted in topic (the name is institutional), and it is not a methods-first journal — it wants a substantive economic result that travels. Calibrate against the desk-reject filter: editors screen out-of-scope or low-novelty work before review (and the submission fee is non-refundable), so the breadth case must be visible on page one.

Fit decision table

SignalReadingMove
Result changes how non-specialists think about a first-order questionStrong EER fitproceed to eer-literature-positioning
Solid identification but narrow policy/sector relevanceBorderline — reframe for breadth or consider a field journalreframe, then eer-literature-positioning
Incremental extension of one literature, specialists onlyWeak EER fitbroaden the question or target a field outlet
Pure theory with a clean, general resultEER fits (theory is in scope)eer-theory-model
About Europe but of only local interestTopic ≠ scope problemrecast around the general economic mechanism

EER vs. its siblings (where does this paper go?)

OutletIdentityPick it when
EERElsevier general-interest, all fields, long-standingbroad-interest result, theory or empirical, no society gate
JEEAThe EEA's own flagship (Oxford UP)you want the EEA society flagship; comparably broad, more selective slot
The Economic JournalRES flagship (Oxford UP)RES-oriented general-interest home
Elsevier field journal (e.g., JME, Labour Economics, JPubE)field-specialist depththe contribution is deep but field-internal

EER and JEEA overlap heavily in scope; the practical difference is the EEA society identity of JEEA and slot scarcity, not topic. Position on contribution and fit, not prestige labels.

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Reframing a narrow question for EER breadth

  1. Name the general mechanism, not the local application ("how search frictions blunt pass-through," not "prices in one retail chain").
  2. State the first-order quantity or theoretical object a generalist cares about.
  3. Show portability — one sentence on what the result implies beyond your setting.
  4. Lead with the answer, not the dataset or estimator.

Checklist

  • One sentence states a question a non-specialist economist would care about
  • The contribution is an answer/mechanism, not a dataset or a method tweak
  • Breadth is visible in the first paragraph (survives the desk-reject screen)
  • Sibling check done: EER vs. JEEA / EJ / field journal, decided on fit not prestige
  • If theory, the result is general (not a single worked example)
  • "European" framing, if any, is recast as a general economic mechanism

Anti-patterns

  • Pitching a clean-but-narrow field increment as if breadth were obvious
  • Leading with the data source or the estimator instead of the economic question
  • Assuming EER means "European topics only" and over-localizing the framing
  • Choosing EER purely on impact factor rather than fit and breadth
  • Ignoring the desk-reject + non-refundable-fee filter when scope is marginal

Output format

【EER fit】strong / borderline / weak
【General-interest question】one sentence (non-specialist-legible)
【Contribution type】empirical answer / mechanism / theory result
【Breadth case】why a non-specialist cares + portability sentence
【Sibling decision】EER vs JEEA / EJ / field journal — and why
【Next step】eer-literature-positioning (or eer-theory-model if pure theory)

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in European-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/eer-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Eer Topic Selection

What does Eer Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question is a fit for the European Economic Review (EER) — general-interest across all of economics — rather than a field journal, JEEA, or The…. Eer Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a question is a fit for the European Economic Review (EER) — general-interest across all of economics — rather than a field journal, JEEA, or The Economic Journal.

When should I use Eer Topic Selection?

Eer Topic Selection fits situations like: the Economic Journal.

How do I install Eer Topic Selection in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eer-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (European-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/eer-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/eer-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Eer Topic Selection in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eer-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (European-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/eer-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/eer-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Eer Topic Selection in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eer-topic-selection -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/eer-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/eer-topic-selection, .github/skills/eer-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/eer-topic-selection in your project.

What does Eer Topic Selection need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Eer Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.

Does Eer Topic Selection access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Eer Topic Selection safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Eer Topic Selection use?

Eer Topic Selection is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Eer Topic Selection use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Eer Topic Selection?

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Who maintains Eer Topic Selection?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.