A skill your agent uses when explaining how the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) review process works — double-anonymous peer review, the seven-Managing-Editor structure, the…

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Install Jfqa Review Process

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfqa-review-process -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jfqa-review-process --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-Financial-and-Quantitative-Analysis-Skills/skills/jfqa-review-process .claude/skills/jfqa-review-process && 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
jfqa-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
596 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when explaining how the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) review process works — double-anonymous peer review, the seven-Managing-Editor structure, the…

  • Works in 4 steps: What variation identifies the headline… → What is the magnitude in finance units,… → Which two or three nearest papers does… → …
  • Explaining how the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) review process works — double-anonymous peer review
  • SKILL.md covers Who decides, The review model, Fee and the desk-screen… and Selectivity, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jfqa Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when explaining how the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) review process works — double-anonymous peer review, the seven-Managing-Editor structure, the $350 fee with $275 refund if not sent to a reviewer, and the under-9-percent acceptance reality. Use to set expectations for what happens after you submit and how decisions are made.

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.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Peer review. 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

  • Explaining how the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) review process works — double-anonymous peer review
  • The seven-Managing-Editor structure
  • The $350 fee with $275 refund if not sent to a reviewer
  • The under-9-percent acceptance reality

Example prompts

  • “/jfqa-review-process”

Workflow steps

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

  1. What variation identifies the headline estimate?
  2. What is the magnitude in finance units, and what is it scaled against?
  3. Which two or three nearest papers does this change, and how?
  4. Why is the paper exactly as long as it is?

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

Jfqa Review Process loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 95 tokens; SKILL.md has 596 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~95
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). 596 words, ~1,234 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jfqa-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jfqa-review-process
description
Use when explaining how the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) review process works — double-anonymous peer review, the seven-Managing-Editor structure, the $350 fee with $275 refund if not sent to a reviewer, and the under-9-percent acceptance reality. Use to set expectations for what happens after you submit and how decisions are made.

JFQA Review Process (jfqa-review-process)

Use this skill to understand what happens to a JFQA manuscript after submission, so you submit informed and read decision letters correctly.

Who decides

  • JFQA has no single Editor-in-Chief. It is led by a team of seven Managing Editors (as of 2026): Hendrik Bessembinder, Ran Duchin, Thierry Foucault, Jarrad Harford, Kai Li, George Pennacchi, and Stephan Siegel, supported by advisory editors and 50+ associate editors.
  • A Managing Editor is assigned per paper; that editor decides whether to desk-reject or send the paper to reviewer(s). (The specific handling editor is assigned per submission — 待核实 for any individual case.)

The review model

  • Double-anonymous peer review (Cambridge Core terminology). Author-identifying information is removed and the manuscript PDF is sent blind to the reviewer(s). Anonymize accordingly (see jfqa-writing-style / jfqa-submission).

Fee and the desk-screen economics

  • A $350 submission fee (credit card only) is charged up front. If the Managing Editor elects not to send the paper to a reviewer, $275 is refunded — so a desk reject still costs you $75 in handling. Budget for this.

Selectivity

  • JFQA prints less than 9% of the more than 1,000 manuscripts submitted annually. Most papers do not clear review; a clean, well-identified, well-formatted submission is how you survive the first screen.

What to expect

  • A desk decision (reject, or send to review), then — if reviewed — referee reports and an editor decision (reject / R&R / rarely accept). R&Rs are demanding; see jfqa-rebuttal.

Decision-letter decoding

Letter outcomeRealistic meaningNext move
Desk reject ($275 refunded)failed the Managing Editor's fit/quality screendiagnose which screen (scope, abstract, length, identification) before retargeting
Reject after reviewthe paper may return only if substantially modified — and the prior rejection must be disclosed in the cover letterweigh a deep rebuild vs. another outlet; never quietly resubmit
R&R, majora genuine path, with heavy identification/robustness asksjfqa-rebuttal, full triage
Conditional acceptexecute the remaining items preciselyfinish edits, then build the Dataverse archive (jfqa-replication-and-data-policy)
Show full SKILL.md (275 more words)Show less

What the assigned Managing Editor screens first

  • Field match: the seven-editor structure means your paper lands with an editor whose own research spans your subfield (microstructure, corporate, asset pricing, banking, institutions) — sloppiness in that subfield's standard methods is visible immediately.
  • Hard-constraint compliance: the one-paragraph ≤ 100-word abstract, the prescribed formatting, a text-searchable PDF, and intact anonymization.
  • Substance signals: a named source of identifying variation, economic magnitudes alongside t-statistics, and length proportionate to the contribution.
  • The screening rubric itself is not published — confirm against the journal's current author guidelines rather than assuming any one factor dominates.

Timeline and fee posture

  • Turnaround varies with the handling editor and reviewer availability; published averages go stale quickly, so plan conference cycles around an uncertain clock and resist querying the editorial office in the first weeks.
  • Fee math compounds: each desk reject costs $75 plus calendar time, so two failed screens cost $150 and a semester. Spending an extra week on jfqa-topic-selection and jfqa-submission preflight is the cheap insurance.
  • If reviewer reports conflict, the Managing Editor — not a vote count — decides; read the editor's own paragraph in the letter as the binding signal.

Four answers to have ready before the screen

Draft a one-sentence answer to each, because the manuscript will be read for exactly these:

  1. What variation identifies the headline estimate?
  2. What is the magnitude in finance units, and what is it scaled against?
  3. Which two or three nearest papers does this change, and how?
  4. Why is the paper exactly as long as it is?

If any answer takes more than one sentence, route back through the relevant jfqa-* skill before paying the fee.

Output format

【Editor】per-paper Managing Editor (7-person panel)
【Model】double-anonymous; blind to reviewers
【Fee math】$350 paid; $75 retained on desk reject
【Odds】<9% printed of 1,000+; expect attrition
【Next step】jfqa-submission (preflight) → jfqa-rebuttal (on R&R)

© 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 Journal-of-Financial-and-Quantitative-Analysis-Skills/skills/jfqa-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jfqa Review Process

What does Jfqa Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when explaining how the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) review process works — double-anonymous peer review, the seven-Managing-Editor structure, the…. Jfqa Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when explaining how the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) review process works — double-anonymous peer review, the seven-Managing-Editor structure, the $350 fee with $275 refund if not sent to a reviewer, and the under-9-percent acceptance reality.

When should I use Jfqa Review Process?

Jfqa Review Process fits situations like: explaining how the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) review process works — double-anonymous peer review; the seven-Managing-Editor structure; the $350 fee with $275 refund if not sent to a reviewer; the under-9-percent acceptance reality.

How do I install Jfqa Review Process in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfqa-review-process -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Financial-and-Quantitative-Analysis-Skills/skills/jfqa-review-process in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jfqa-review-process in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Jfqa Review Process in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfqa-review-process -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Financial-and-Quantitative-Analysis-Skills/skills/jfqa-review-process in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jfqa-review-process in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Jfqa Review Process 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 jfqa-review-process -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/jfqa-review-process, .gemini/skills/jfqa-review-process, .github/skills/jfqa-review-process and .opencode/skills/jfqa-review-process in your project.

What does Jfqa Review Process need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Jfqa Review Process is instructions for the agent only.

Does Jfqa Review Process 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 Jfqa Review Process 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 Jfqa Review Process use?

Jfqa Review Process 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 Jfqa Review Process use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k 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 Jfqa Review Process?

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.