A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question fits the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) and which of its seven manuscript categories to target.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Jais Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jais-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/Journal-of-the-Association-for-Information-Systems-Skills/skills/jais-topic-selection .claude/skills/jais-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
jais-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,076 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 fits the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) and which of its seven manuscript categories to target.

  • Tasks that involve Citation management
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, First: is this a JAIS question…, Then: pick the right JAIS… and Scope the length to the category, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jais Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a question fits the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) and which of its seven manuscript categories to target. Locks the IS phenomenon, the unit of analysis, and the category before theory work begins; it does not build the theory (jais-theory-development) or invent citations.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Citation management. 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

  • Tasks that involve Citation management

Example prompts

  • “/jais-topic-selection”

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

Jais Topic Selection loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 87 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,076 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~87
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.2k

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). 1,076 words, ~2,196 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jais-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jais-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a question fits the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) and which of its seven manuscript categories to target. Locks the IS phenomenon, the unit of analysis, and the category before theory work begins; it does not build the theory (jais-theory-development) or invent citations.

Topic & Category Selection (jais-topic-selection)

When to trigger

  • You have an interesting IS finding or idea but are unsure JAIS (vs. MISQ / ISR / JMIS) is the right home
  • You cannot say in one sentence what the information-technology artifact or digital phenomenon is doing in the paper
  • You are unsure whether to enter as a Research Article, a standalone Theory paper, a Literature Review, a Research Perspective, Foundational Research, or Policy and Impact
  • A coauthor wants a "JAIS-grade" question but the draft reads like a generic management or CS paper

First: is this a JAIS question at all?

JAIS rewards work where information systems / digital technology is theoretically load-bearing, not decorative. The about page describes JAIS as "inclusive in topics, level and unit of analysis, theory, method and philosophical and research approach" and says it "encourages theory based multi- or inter-disciplinary research" (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准). That pluralism is genuine — but it is theory-gated. A descriptive industry report or a pure machine-learning benchmark with no IS theory is a desk-reject regardless of execution quality. Ask: would an IS scholar in a different sub-tradition still learn something general about technology, organizations, or people from this?

Then: pick the right JAIS category (this is the move siblings do not force)

JAIS's distinctive feature is that theory and review are first-class submission types, not afterthoughts. Choose deliberately — the category sets the bar your reviewers apply.

Category (Senior Editor 待核实)Choose it when…The bar it sets
Research Articlesempirical, modeling, or design work testing/building theory; primary construct development is discouraged herea rigorous, theory-grounded empirical or design contribution
Theorythe contribution is the theory — a new construct, a novel framework, or a novel integration of existing theoriesoriginal, generative theory about a novel IS/digital topic
Literature Reviews (SE Gregory Vial)a structured synthesis that opens new directions, or theory development through reviewa method-driven review with a forward-looking theoretical payoff
Research Perspectives (SE Dirk Hovorka, ~10,000 words)you are questioning assumptions, critiquing the field, offering constructive guidancea defensible, generative argument about the discipline
Foundational Research on Novel Digital Phenomena (SE Varun Grover)a genuinely new digital phenomenon nobody has studied yetdisciplined description that yields new or pre-theoretical insight
Editorials (6,000–8,000 words)typically invited commentary on gaps/practicesusually invited — confirm before targeting
Policy and Impact (SE Roman Beck, 5,000–7,000 words)theorizing how IS research translates into policya credible research-to-policy bridge

Scope the length to the category

Most empirical/theory/review/foundational papers should stay under ~15,000 words — beyond that "are very likely to receive extra scrutiny from the editors and may be returned to be shortened," and manuscripts over 65 pages including everything will not be sent out for review (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准). Decide the category and its budget now, before you over-build.

Confirm the IT artifact is theoretically load-bearing

JAIS's inclusiveness is often misread as "anything touching technology fits." It does not. The test is whether the information-technology artifact or digital phenomenon is doing theoretical work — whether removing it would collapse the contribution. A study where IT is merely the setting (e.g., "we surveyed employees who happen to use software") is not a JAIS topic no matter how clean the data; a study where a specific affordance of the technology drives the mechanism is. Run this test before committing: name the artifact, then ask what the paper would lose if you swapped it for a non-technological equivalent. If the answer is "nothing," reshape the topic before choosing a category.

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The "why JAIS, not the sibling" test, made concrete

The single most useful pre-submission discipline is answering "why JAIS?" against each near neighbor, because a wrong answer predicts a fit desk-reject. Use this map.

If a reviewer says it reads like…The real home might be…The JAIS-defending move
a hard causal identification result with thin theoryISR (INFORMS)foreground the theoretical/conceptual payoff; consider Theory or Research Article with theory first
a polished IT-artifact build with light theoryMISQ (design-science identity)sharpen the generalizable design knowledge; lean into JAIS's theory framing
an applied systems/economic-modeling studyJMISshow the cross-disciplinary theoretical contribution, not just the model
a broad management/OR study not about ISManagement Scienceconfirm the IT artifact is load-bearing, or reroute
a literature summary with no forward theorya review outlet without JAIS's two-genre baradd method + theoretical destination (Literature Review category)

If you cannot win the "why JAIS" argument for any category, the topic is not yet a JAIS topic — fix that before writing.

Worked vignette: routing the same study to different categories (illustrative)

Suppose a team has rich field data on how a new decentralized-finance protocol changed lending behavior. The same evidence could anchor three different JAIS submissions, and the category choice changes everything downstream. As a Research Article, the payoff is a theory-tested empirical result about IT-enabled disintermediation — reviewers will demand identification and validity. As Foundational Research on Novel Digital Phenomena, the payoff is the first disciplined account of a genuinely new phenomenon, and over-theorizing too early would be a flaw; reviewers reward careful description and pre-theoretical insight. As a Theory paper, the data recede and a new construct (say, "algorithmic trust substitution") plus its nomological net becomes the contribution. Pick before you write: each route has a different Senior Editor, bar, and length budget.

Checklist

  • The IT artifact / digital phenomenon is load-bearing, not a context decoration
  • The paper teaches something general to IS scholars outside its own sub-tradition (the multi/inter-disciplinary test)
  • One JAIS category is chosen on purpose, and the contribution matches that category's bar
  • If a Research Article: the contribution is not merely "we developed a new construct" (discouraged there — consider Theory)
  • The unit/level of analysis (individual, group, firm, network, society) is named
  • Length budget fits the category (≤~15k typical; ≤65pp absolute)
  • The reason this is JAIS and not MISQ/ISR/JMIS can be stated in one sentence
  • Swapping the IT artifact for a non-technological equivalent would break the contribution (the load-bearing test)
  • Volatile category facts (SE names, word budgets) are treated as 待核实 against the live author page

Anti-patterns

  • Sending an atheoretical phenomenon report to a category that expects theory.
  • Picking "Research Article" for a paper whose whole point is a new construct (JAIS discourages primary construct development there; the Theory category fits better).
  • Choosing JAIS because it is "easier than MISQ" — fit, not perceived selectivity, drives the routing.
  • Defaulting to the catch-all Research Article when Theory, Foundational, or Perspectives is the true genre.
  • Naming no unit of analysis, so reviewers cannot tell what the claim is about.

Output format

text
【Journal】Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS)
【IS phenomenon / artifact】one sentence; why technology is load-bearing
【Category】Research Article / Theory / Literature Review / Research Perspectives / Foundational / Editorial / Policy and Impact
【Unit/level of analysis】individual / group / firm / network / society
【Length budget】≤~15k words (or category-specific); ≤65pp absolute
【Why JAIS not MISQ/ISR/JMIS】one sentence
【Source status】verified URL / 待核实
【Next skill】jais-theory-development

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-the-Association-for-Information-Systems-Skills/skills/jais-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jais Topic Selection

What does Jais Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question fits the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) and which of its seven manuscript categories to target. Jais Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a question fits the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) and which of its seven manuscript categories to target.

When should I use Jais Topic Selection?

Jais Topic Selection fits situations like: tasks that involve Citation management.

How do I install Jais Topic Selection in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jais-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-the-Association-for-Information-Systems-Skills/skills/jais-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jais-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Jais Topic Selection in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jais-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-the-Association-for-Information-Systems-Skills/skills/jais-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jais-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

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

What does Jais Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Jais 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 Jais 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 Jais Topic Selection use?

Jais 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 Jais Topic Selection use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.8k 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 Jais 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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