A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a sociology project fits the European Sociological Review (ESR) and whether to write a full Article, a Comment/Reply, or a Data Brief.

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Install Eursr Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills eursr-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-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/eursr-topic-selection .claude/skills/eursr-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
eursr-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
657 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 sociology project fits the European Sociological Review (ESR) and whether to write a full Article, a Comment/Reply, or a Data Brief.

  • Works in 4 steps: Quantitative core. The contribution… → A mechanism that travels. It changes how… → Comparative or longitudinal leverage.… → …
  • Deciding whether a sociology project fits the European Sociological Review (ESR) and whether to write a full Article
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The ESR fit test, Core-topic framing (write… and Article vs. Comment/Reply vs.…, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Eursr Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a sociology project fits the European Sociological Review (ESR) and whether to write a full Article, a Comment/Reply, or a Data Brief. ESR is Europe's flagship quantitative-sociology journal, so the test is a portable mechanism studied with a rigorous comparative or longitudinal quantitative design. Frames the question; it does not collect data.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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

  • Deciding whether a sociology project fits the European Sociological Review (ESR) and whether to write a full Article
  • A Comment/Reply

Example prompts

  • “/eursr-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Quantitative core. The contribution rests on quantitative evidence — survey, register/
  2. A mechanism that travels. It changes how sociology explains stratification, education, labor
  3. Comparative or longitudinal leverage. The design exploits cross-national variation, change over
  4. Answerable within scope. Sharp enough to convince in ~8,000 words including endnotes and

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

Eursr Topic Selection loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 657 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~99
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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). 657 words, ~1,642 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/eursr-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
eursr-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a sociology project fits the European Sociological Review (ESR) and whether to write a full Article, a Comment/Reply, or a Data Brief. ESR is Europe's flagship quantitative-sociology journal, so the test is a portable mechanism studied with a rigorous comparative or longitudinal quantitative design. Frames the question; it does not collect data.

Topic Selection & Fit (eursr-topic-selection)

ESR is the quantitative-sociology flagship of the ECSR. The bar is not "new finding for my country" — it is "advances how sociology explains a social process, demonstrated with a rigorous quantitative design that travels across European contexts." Use this skill to pressure-test fit before investing.

When to trigger

  • Choosing among possible projects or framings for ESR
  • A reader said the paper feels "single-country," "merely descriptive," or "atheoretical"
  • Deciding among a full Article, a Comment/Reply, and a Data Brief

The ESR fit test

A strong ESR paper usually clears all four:

  1. Quantitative core. The contribution rests on quantitative evidence — survey, register/ administrative, panel, or comparative data — analyzed rigorously. ESR is not the venue for a purely theoretical or purely ethnographic paper.
  2. A mechanism that travels. It changes how sociology explains stratification, education, labor markets, family/life course, migration, or attitudes — not just what we know about one wave or country (see eursr-theory-building).
  3. Comparative or longitudinal leverage. The design exploits cross-national variation, change over time, or a panel/cohort structure to learn something a single cross-section cannot.
  4. Answerable within scope. Sharp enough to convince in ~8,000 words including endnotes and references (tables and figures excluded).

Core-topic framing (write toward ESR's substantive heart)

Home angleReach ESR by…
Single-country attainmentbenchmark against a cross-national pattern or institutional contrast
A demographic trendname the social process and test it on panel/cohort structure
Attitudes / valuestie the attitude to a structural mechanism, not a country description
Migration / ethnicityspecify the integration or boundary mechanism that travels across contexts
A methods demonstrationlead with the substantive sociological question the method answers

Article vs. Comment/Reply vs. Data Brief

  • Article — full quantitative study, portable mechanism, ~8,000 words (incl. endnotes + references).
  • Comment/Reply — a focused, rigorous critique of or reply to a published ESR piece; engage the original on its own terms; do not smuggle a new study into a Comment.
  • Data Brief — showcase a data source's sociological potential and describe its design, sampling, and questionnaire content so it can become a key reference; not a vehicle for a full causal argument.

Fit-screening signals (will an ESR editor send it out?)

As Europe's quantitative-sociology flagship, ESR's editors screen for a portable mechanism plus a comparative/longitudinal design. Use these signals to predict the screening decision.

SignalGood fitOff-fit / desk-reject risk
Stakes sentence"changes how we explain process X across contexts""first study of Y in country Z"
Design leveragecross-national / panel variation does workone cross-section, no comparison
Theorya mechanism that travelsa coefficient with no "why"
Method framingrigorous quant serving a social questiona technique demonstration
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Worked micro-example (illustrative)

A scholar weighs two framings of the same SOEP-plus-EU-SILC project on parental leave.

Framing A: "Take-up of parental leave reform in Germany, 2015–2022" → single-country, descriptive,
  high desk-reject risk
Framing B: "How statutory leave design reshapes the motherhood employment penalty: a comparison of
  reform timing across welfare regimes" → enters a live comparative debate; leverage from cross-national
  + before/after variation; portable mechanism (institutional design → penalty)
Verdict: B clears all four fit tests; A fails comparative leverage and portability despite richer data
Type: a full quantitative study with a portable claim → Article (~8,000 incl. references), not a Comment

Same evidence, different fit: the contribution lives in the mechanism's reach and the comparative leverage.

Referee/editor pushback → ESR-specific fix

  • "This is one-country description." → Add cross-national or over-time leverage; recast around the institutional mechanism the variation identifies.
  • "This is a method paper." → Lead with the substantive sociological question; the estimator serves it.
  • "You're cramming a study into a Comment." → A new study is an Article; reserve Comment/Reply for engaging a published ESR piece.

Calibration anchors

  • Quantitative rigor and portable theory are joint requirements. ESR rarely advances a paper strong on only one; a clean estimate with no mechanism under-performs, as does a grand claim with weak data.
  • Comparative/longitudinal leverage is the house signature. Cross-national and panel designs are what distinguish ESR work from a national-journal note.
  • Confirm article-type and length specifics against the current OUP guidelines if exact limits are decision-relevant; the Article / Comment / Data Brief distinction is stable.

Anti-patterns

  • "Not yet studied in country X" as the whole contribution (descriptive, single-country)
  • A method showcase with no substantive sociological payoff
  • A trend description with no theoretical mechanism or comparative leverage
  • A question too sprawling to answer within ~8,000 words

Output format

【Question】one sentence
【Portable mechanism】what general social process it advances
【Comparative / longitudinal leverage】what variation does the work
【Quantitative core】data + design type
【Type】Article / Comment-Reply / Data-Brief
【Fit verdict】strong / needs reframing / off-fit (why)
【Next】eursr-literature-positioning

Supplementary resources

© 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-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/eursr-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Eursr Topic Selection

What does Eursr Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a sociology project fits the European Sociological Review (ESR) and whether to write a full Article, a Comment/Reply, or a Data Brief. Eursr Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a sociology project fits the European Sociological Review (ESR) and whether to write a full Article, a Comment/Reply, or a Data Brief.

When should I use Eursr Topic Selection?

Eursr Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a sociology project fits the European Sociological Review (ESR) and whether to write a full Article; A Comment/Reply.

How do I install Eursr Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Eursr Topic Selection in Codex?

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

Can I use Eursr 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 eursr-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/eursr-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/eursr-topic-selection, .github/skills/eursr-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/eursr-topic-selection in your project.

What does Eursr Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Eursr 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 Eursr 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 Eursr Topic Selection use?

Eursr 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 Eursr Topic Selection use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Eursr 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.

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