A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question is the right shape for a Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) manuscript — an IS-management or economics-of-IS problem, not a…

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Install Jmis Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jmis-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-Management-Information-Systems-Skills/skills/jmis-topic-selection .claude/skills/jmis-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
jmis-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,173 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 the right shape for a Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) manuscript — an IS-management or economics-of-IS problem, not a…

  • Works in 3 steps: The IS-management hinge. Does the answer… → The economics-of-IS angle. JMIS (Zwass's… → Generalizable beyond one system. The…
  • Deciding whether a question is the right shape for a Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) manuscript — an IS-management
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What makes a question…, Decision table: route by what… and JMIS vs. its neighbors at the…, plus 8 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jmis Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a question is the right shape for a Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) manuscript — an IS-management or economics-of-IS problem, not a generic tech study or a pure CS contribution. Pressure-tests fit and outlet choice before theory work begins; it does not build the mechanism (jmis-theory-development).

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.

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 is the right shape for a Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) manuscript — an IS-management
  • Economics-of-IS problem
  • Not a generic tech study
  • A pure CS contribution

Example prompts

  • “/jmis-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. The IS-management hinge. Does the answer change how a manager, firm, platform, or policymaker should act on technology? "We predict churn…
  2. The economics-of-IS angle. JMIS (Zwass's IJEC lineage) is unusually receptive to IT economics, e-commerce, digital platforms, network…
  3. Generalizable beyond one system. The insight should travel past the specific artifact or firm to a class of IS phenomena.

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

Jmis Topic Selection loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,173 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
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). 1,173 words, ~2,247 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jmis-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jmis-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a question is the right shape for a Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) manuscript — an IS-management or economics-of-IS problem, not a generic tech study or a pure CS contribution. Pressure-tests fit and outlet choice before theory work begins; it does not build the mechanism (jmis-theory-development).

Topic Selection (jmis-topic-selection)

When to trigger

  • You have an IS/technology phenomenon but cannot say what managerial or economic question it answers
  • The work might be a better fit for MISQ, ISR, JAIS, Management Science, or a CS venue and you need to decide before investing in theory
  • A reviewer or colleague says "this is a technical exercise" or "where is the management contribution?"
  • The dataset (platform logs, firm IT spend, e-commerce transactions, security incidents) is rich but the question is not yet sharp

What makes a question JMIS-shaped

JMIS rewards questions at the technology–organization–economics nexus: how information systems and technology are managed, valued, and governed, and how they reshape firms, markets, and platforms. The strongest JMIS topics make the technology load-bearing in an economic or managerial mechanism — not a backdrop. Use these tests:

  1. The IS-management hinge. Does the answer change how a manager, firm, platform, or policymaker should act on technology? "We predict churn with a new model" is CS; "we show how a recommender's design shifts platform-side seller competition and revenue" is JMIS.
  2. The economics-of-IS angle. JMIS (Zwass's IJEC lineage) is unusually receptive to IT economics, e-commerce, digital platforms, network effects, IT business value, and the economics of security/privacy. If your question has incentives, information, matching, or value at its core, it fits.
  3. Generalizable beyond one system. The insight should travel past the specific artifact or firm to a class of IS phenomena.

Decision table: route by what the question is really about

Your question is really about…Strong JMIS fit if…Reroute / risk
IT investment and firm performanceidentification of IT's causal value, not just correlation with spendpure finance → a finance journal
a digital platform / marketplacenetwork effects, two-sidedness, governance, or pricing are theorizeddescriptive platform stats → weak fit
IS adoption / use / behaviora technology-specific behavioral mechanism, validatedgeneric TAM replication → desk-reject risk
a built artifact / ML systemmanagerial utility evaluated vs. real baselines, design knowledge generalizedalgorithm-only novelty → a CS venue
security / privacythe economics or management of risk, disclosure, breachesa crypto/protocol result → a security venue
a policy / governance changethe IT-mediated effect on firms or markets is the pointa pure econ result with IS as setting → econ journal

JMIS vs. its neighbors at the topic stage

  • vs. MISQ — MISQ leans into design-science and theory-method pluralism; JMIS leans into management/economics of IS. If the contribution is a design theory, MISQ may fit better.
  • vs. ISR — ISR prizes sociotechnical, intradisciplinary, silo-bridging work and analytical models as co-equal. If your edge is bridging behavioral and economic paradigms, weigh ISR.
  • vs. Management Science (IS dept.) — broader OR/management generality; JMIS wants the IS audience and an IS-specific takeaway.
  • vs. a CS / data-mining venue — if removing the management/economics framing loses nothing, the paper is not JMIS-shaped.

Worked vignette: from a dataset to a JMIS question (illustrative)

A team has clickstream and seller data from a marketplace and a draft titled "Predicting which sellers churn." As written it is a churn-prediction paper — a CS/data-mining contribution. The JMIS-shaped version asks an economic-of-platforms question: does the platform's algorithmic ranking redesign cause marginal sellers to exit, and does that shrink buyer-side variety and platform revenue? Now the technology (the ranking algorithm) is load-bearing, there is an identifying event (the redesign), and the takeaway is managerial (how aggressively to personalize ranking trades off short-run match quality against long-run seller supply). Same data, JMIS-grade question.

Pre-commit the fit decision before theory work

Topic selection is also an outlet decision, and it is cheaper to make now than after a desk return. Write the single sentence, then ask three coauthor-style questions: Who on the JMIS board would champion this? Which reviewer would say "wrong journal"? If a reviewer says "this is really a MISQ/ISR/econ paper," can I answer in one sentence? If you cannot, the fit is borderline and you should resolve it — by sharpening the management/economics angle or by rerouting — before investing in jmis-theory-development.

Checklist

  • The one-sentence question names the technology and the managerial/economic stake
  • Removing the IT artifact would break the contribution (technology is load-bearing)
  • The economics-of-IS or IT-value angle is explicit where the phenomenon supports it
  • You can name the JMIS audience segment that cares and the one that would desk-reject
  • Fit vs. MISQ/ISR/JAIS/Management Science is argued, not assumed
  • The insight generalizes beyond the single system, firm, or dataset
  • The question passes the deletion, audience, and decision tests
  • The phenomenon maps onto a JMIS-rewarded area (IT value, platforms, e-commerce, security/privacy economics, analytics)
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Topics JMIS has historically rewarded

JMIS's identity — shaped by Vladimir Zwass's long editorship and his parallel work on electronic commerce — leans toward the management and economics of IS. Questions that sit squarely in its wheelhouse: the business value and complementarities of IT and emerging tech (now including AI/analytics); the design, governance, and competition of digital platforms and marketplaces; e-commerce and digital channels; the economics of information security and privacy; decision support and business analytics in real managerial settings; and the organizational and market impacts of new technology. A topic that maps cleanly onto one of these — with the technology load-bearing — starts with the wind at its back; one that only borrows an IS setting to make a reference-discipline point starts behind.

Anti-patterns

  • A technically strong model with no managerial or economic question — reads as a CS paper in IS clothing
  • A generic technology-adoption replication with no IS-specific mechanism
  • Treating the IT artifact as an interchangeable "treatment" or setting
  • Picking JMIS only because it is T&F and easy to email, when MISQ/ISR is the natural home
  • Inventing an exemplar JMIS paper to justify fit instead of verifying it in the archive
  • Choosing the topic for data availability alone, with no managerial or economic question attached
  • A purely descriptive "we characterize X" framing with no decision it would change

Stress-test the scope before you commit

Three quick tests separate a JMIS topic from a near-miss. The deletion test: remove the IT artifact from the question — if it still makes sense, the technology was a setting, not the subject, and the paper is probably not IS. The audience test: picture the JMIS readership (IS scholars who study the management and economics of technology) — can you name the subset who would cite this and the subset who would shrug? If you cannot name either, the topic is too diffuse. The decision test: does answering the question change a real technology decision (invest, govern, price, design, disclose)? JMIS's management identity rewards a question whose answer a manager or platform could act on; a purely descriptive "we characterize X" topic, however novel, sits closer to the journal's margin.

Hand off only when fit is settled

Do not route to jmis-theory-development while the fit verdict is still "borderline." A topic that is unsure of its home wastes theory and analysis effort, because a reframe at the contribution stage often forces the mechanism to be rebuilt. Resolve the fit first — sharpen the management/economics angle until the deletion, audience, and decision tests all pass, or reroute honestly to the sibling that fits — and only then commit downstream work.

Output format

text
【Journal】Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS)
【One-sentence question】technology + managerial/economic stake
【IS-management hinge】who acts differently and how
【Economics-of-IS angle】incentives / value / platform / security economics (or n/a)
【Fit verdict】strong / borderline / reroute → which sibling
【Next skill】jmis-theory-development

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Management-Information-Systems-Skills/skills/jmis-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jmis Topic Selection

What does Jmis Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question is the right shape for a Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) manuscript — an IS-management or economics-of-IS problem, not a…. Jmis Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a question is the right shape for a Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) manuscript — an IS-management or economics-of-IS problem, not a generic tech study or a pure CS contribution.

When should I use Jmis Topic Selection?

Jmis Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a question is the right shape for a Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) manuscript — an IS-management; economics-of-IS problem; not a generic tech study; A pure CS contribution.

How do I install Jmis Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jmis Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Jmis Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Jmis 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 Jmis 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 Jmis Topic Selection use?

Jmis 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 Jmis Topic Selection use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 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 Jmis 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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