A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question fits the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) rather than a field journal or a sibling general-interest outlet for a JEEA…

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Install Jeea Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jeea-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-European-Economic-Association-Skills/skills/jeea-topic-selection .claude/skills/jeea-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
jeea-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
741 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 European Economic Association (JEEA) rather than a field journal or a sibling general-interest outlet for a JEEA…

  • Works in 2 steps: Does the lesson travel? State the… → Does the execution clear the bar? A…
  • Deciding whether a question fits the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) rather than a field journal
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The JEEA fit bar, Fit decision table and Sibling discrimination (do not…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jeea Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a question fits the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) rather than a field journal or a sibling general-interest outlet for a JEEA manuscript. Tests general-interest fit and sharpens the question; it does not design the empirics or model.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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 question fits the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) rather than a field journal
  • A sibling general-interest outlet for a JEEA manuscript

Example prompts

  • “/jeea-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Does the lesson travel? State the take-away in one sentence a non-specialist economist would find surprising or consequential. If the…
  2. Does the execution clear the bar? A clean, defensible identification (empirical) or a model whose assumptions are disciplined and whose…

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

Jeea Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 741 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~76
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 741 words, ~1,464 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jeea-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jeea-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a question fits the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) rather than a field journal or a sibling general-interest outlet for a JEEA manuscript. Tests general-interest fit and sharpens the question; it does not design the empirics or model.

Topic Selection & Fit (jeea-topic-selection)

When to trigger

  • The question feels important within one subfield but you are unsure it travels
  • You are choosing between JEEA, The Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, a field journal, or a top-5
  • A draft answers a narrow technical question with no broad lesson
  • A co-author asks "is this a JEEA paper?"

The JEEA fit bar

JEEA is the EEA's general-interest journal for high-quality theoretical and empirical economics. The bar is general interest at a high theory-and-empirics standard: a paper must matter to a broad economics readership, not only to specialists in its subfield. JEEA is genuinely field-agnostic — micro and macro theory, applied econometrics, applied micro, finance, development, public all appear — so what discriminates is not the field but whether the lesson generalizes and whether the execution clears a strong methodological bar for either a credible empirical design or a disciplined model.

Two questions decide fit:

  1. Does the lesson travel? State the take-away in one sentence a non-specialist economist would find surprising or consequential. If the sentence only lands for subfield insiders, it is a field-journal paper.
  2. Does the execution clear the bar? A clean, defensible identification (empirical) or a model whose assumptions are disciplined and whose result is sharp (theory/structural). General interest without rigor is a magazine piece; rigor without general interest is a field paper.

Fit decision table

SituationLikely homeWhy
Broad lesson + clean identification or sharp modelJEEAthe general-interest sweet spot
Broad lesson but execution is preliminaryrevise first (jeea-identification / jeea-theory-model), then JEEAthe bar is the obstacle, not the topic
Rigorous but the lesson is subfield-onlya strong field journalgeneral interest is missing
New estimator with a toy applicationan econometrics field journalmethod-first, not question-first
Top-5-or-bust ambition with marginal noveltycalibrate (JEEA is a strong, faster home)jeea-referee-strategy

Sibling discrimination (do not target the wrong European outlet)

  • vs. The Economic Journal (RES): both are broad European outlets; JEEA carries the EEA association-journal identity with a strong theory+empirics bar. Pick by where the lesson and the execution genuinely land.
  • vs. European Economic Review (EER): EER is broad-scope but typically less of a top-tier general-interest gatekeeper; JEEA aims higher on the general-interest novelty bar.
  • vs. top-5: JEEA is a strong European general-interest home below the top-5 — a realistic, faster home for a paper with a genuine general-interest lesson that is not quite a top-5 swing.
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The two-minute fit triage

Before any deeper work, run this quick triage to avoid building toward the wrong venue:

  1. State the lesson in one sentence to a colleague in a different subfield. If they shrug, the general-interest hook is missing.
  2. Name the execution path — empirical design or model — and ask whether it is already at, or can reach, a strong bar.
  3. Name the closest competitor venue honestly (EJ, EER, field, top-5) and the reason JEEA wins or loses against it.

If 1 and 2 both pass, JEEA is in play; if only 2 passes, the topic is a field paper; if only 1 passes, the execution is the obstacle, not the venue.

Checklist

  • One-sentence lesson written; a non-specialist would find it surprising or consequential
  • Field is irrelevant to the decision — fit rests on generality + rigor, not subfield prestige
  • Execution path chosen: credible empirical design or disciplined model (route to jeea-identification / jeea-theory-model)
  • Sibling check done (JEEA vs. EJ / EER / field / top-5) with an honest reason
  • The contribution is an answer or a result, not a method demonstration

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A draft is titled "Bank Branch Closures and Small-Firm Credit in [one country], 2010–2018." As framed, it is a banking-field paper. The JEEA-grade reframe asks the travel test: what general lesson does the closure shock teach? The revision leads with "When physical bank access disappears, which firms lose credit — and does soft information explain it?" The closure is now an instrument for a general question about relationship lending and information frictions, with a lesson that travels to any economy digitizing its banking. Same data, JEEA-shaped question.

Anti-patterns

  • Selling subfield depth ("the most complete treatment of X in setting Y") where a general reader sees no broad lesson
  • Pitching JEEA as a consolation top-5 reject without re-framing the general-interest contribution
  • A purely methodological paper with a toy application (econometrics-field-shaped, not JEEA-shaped)
  • Assuming "European topic" = JEEA fit — geography is not the criterion; generality is
  • Choosing the venue before the question is sharp — fit follows the lesson, not the other way around

Output format

【One-sentence lesson】[does it travel beyond the subfield? Y/N]
【Field】[any — not the deciding factor]
【Execution path】empirical design / theory model / structural-quantitative
【JEEA vs siblings】[JEEA / EJ / EER / field / top-5] + reason
【General-interest verdict】[fit / revise-then-fit / wrong venue]
【Next step】jeea-literature-positioning

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-the-European-Economic-Association-Skills/skills/jeea-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jeea Topic Selection

What does Jeea Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question fits the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) rather than a field journal or a sibling general-interest outlet for a JEEA…. Jeea Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a question fits the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) rather than a field journal or a sibling general-interest outlet for a JEEA manuscript.

When should I use Jeea Topic Selection?

Jeea Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a question fits the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) rather than a field journal; A sibling general-interest outlet for a JEEA manuscript.

How do I install Jeea Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jeea Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Jeea Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Jeea 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 Jeea 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 Jeea Topic Selection use?

Jeea 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 Jeea Topic Selection use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.9k 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 Jeea Topic Selection?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,219 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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