A skill your agent uses when testing whether a research question is policy-first enough for the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (JPP&M), and which of its domains and paper shapes it fits…

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Install Jppm Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jppm-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-Public-Policy-and-Marketing-Skills/skills/jppm-topic-selection .claude/skills/jppm-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
jppm-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
704 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when testing whether a research question is policy-first enough for the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (JPP&M), and which of its domains and paper shapes it fits…

  • Testing whether a research question is policy-first enough for the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (JPP&M)
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The JPP&M fit test:…, Outlet fit: which sibling, and… and Shaping the paper for JPP&M, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Which of its domains and paper shapes it fits

What it does

Jppm Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when testing whether a research question is policy-first enough for the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (JPP&M), and which of its domains and paper shapes it fits, before design and data are locked. Settles fit and outlet; it does not build the theory of the policy lever (jppm-theory-development).

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.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Hypothesis generation. 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

  • Testing whether a research question is policy-first enough for the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (JPP&M)
  • Which of its domains and paper shapes it fits
  • Before design and data are locked

Example prompts

  • “/jppm-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

Jppm Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 82 tokens; SKILL.md has 704 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~82
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). 704 words, ~1,500 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jppm-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jppm-topic-selection
description
Use when testing whether a research question is policy-first enough for the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (JPP&M), and which of its domains and paper shapes it fits, before design and data are locked. Settles fit and outlet; it does not build the theory of the policy lever (jppm-theory-development).

Topic Selection (jppm-topic-selection)

When to trigger

  • You have a consumer or marketing finding and wonder whether "adding policy" makes it a JPP&M paper
  • You cannot name the regulator, statute, rulemaking, or enforcement debate the paper speaks to
  • A policy just changed (labeling rule, privacy law, marketing restriction) and you want to evaluate it
  • You are choosing among JPP&M, JM, JCR/JCP, Journal of Consumer Affairs, Journal of Macromarketing, or a policy-school outlet
  • A coauthor wants to strip the policy angle to chase a "bigger" marketing journal

The JPP&M fit test: policy-first, not policy-adjacent

JPP&M publishes research where the policy question is the point, not the backdrop. A topic passes when three things are true: (a) there is a live policy conversation — an active rulemaking, enforcement controversy, legislative debate, or NGO campaign — that the study can inform; (b) marketing scholarship offers distinctive leverage on it (consumer response to disclosure formats, firm reactions to marketing restrictions, marketplace dynamics regulators cannot see from administrative data alone); and (c) there is at least one actionable margin: a design choice, threshold, scope decision, or enforcement priority a stakeholder actually controls. If you cannot draft a credible 300-word Policy Contribution Statement now — naming the conversation, the advance, and the stakeholders — the topic is not ready for this journal.

The journal's recurring domains: deceptive and unfair marketing practices; warnings, disclosures, and labeling (tobacco, alcohol, food/nutrition, dietary supplements); privacy, data collection, and algorithmic marketing; marketing to children and other vulnerable groups; financial products and consumer financial well-being; sustainability claims and greenwashing; health-care and pharmaceutical marketing; equity, access, and discrimination in marketplaces; social marketing for public health.

Outlet fit: which sibling, and why not

If the core contribution is…Aim atWhy not JPP&M
Evidence a policy actor can use on a marketing/consumer questionJPP&M—
A psychological process behind consumer judgmentJCP / JCRJPP&M wants the policy decision, not the mediator, as the headline
Firm strategy or marketing-mix effectiveness for managersJM / JMRThe stakeholder there is the firm, not the regulator
Broad marketplace-systems critique without a policy instrumentJournal of MacromarketingJPP&M expects an actionable lever
Household finance / consumer-affairs education focusJournal of Consumer Affairsoverlapping turf; JPP&M leans harder on regulation and marketing practice
Program evaluation with no marketing contentJPAM / policy journalsJPP&M needs the marketing side of the exchange

The trap that catches the most teams: a rigorous consumer experiment whose "policy implication" is generic ("regulators should consider…"). At JPP&M, reviewers ask which regulator, which instrument, which decision. If every answer is vague, the paper belongs at JCP or JCR.

Show full SKILL.md (280 more words)Show less

Shaping the paper for JPP&M

  • Anchor in the regulatory record. Read the actual rule, guidance document, or complaint (FTC Act §5 cases, FDA labeling rules, CFPB actions, FTC Green Guides, COPPA, state privacy statutes). Topics sharpen fast once you know what is already mandated versus contested.
  • Pick the contested margin. Evaluating a settled rule is history; evaluating the margin under debate (extension, format, threshold, enforcement) is a contribution.
  • Plan the counterfactual early. If the topic is a policy evaluation, ask now whether a credible comparison exists (staggered adoption, eligibility cutoff, exempt segment). No counterfactual, no paper.
  • Check the special-issue calendar. JPP&M runs themed calls (e.g., misinformation, AI and consumer protection); a matching call raises fit and reviewer sympathy — check the AMA page for open calls.
  • Draft the Policy Contribution Statement as a go/no-go memo before investing in data.

Checklist

  • A live policy conversation is named (rulemaking, enforcement, legislation, NGO campaign)
  • Marketing scholarship gives distinctive leverage a policy analyst alone would lack
  • At least one stakeholder decision the findings could change is identified
  • A draft Policy Contribution Statement (conversation / advance / stakeholders) exists
  • For evaluations: a plausible counterfactual source is identified before data collection
  • Any matching special-issue call on the AMA page has been checked
  • One sentence says why this is JPP&M and not JCP/JCR/JM/JCA

Anti-patterns

  • Policy costume: a standard consumer-behavior study reframed with regulatory vocabulary at the end
  • Ghost stakeholder: implications addressed to "policymakers" nobody can name
  • Settled-question evaluation: studying a rule whose debate closed a decade ago, with nothing new at stake
  • Advocacy topic: choosing a question to support a position rather than to test one
  • Counterfactual-free evaluation: promising policy impact estimates with no comparison group in sight

Output format

text
【Policy conversation】the live debate, rule, or enforcement question
【Marketing leverage】what marketing scholarship uniquely contributes
【Actionable margin】the decision a named stakeholder controls
【Draft statement】conversation / advance / stakeholders in ≤3 lines
【Outlet verdict】JPP&M / reroute (where + why)
【Next skill】jppm-theory-development

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Public-Policy-and-Marketing-Skills/skills/jppm-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jppm Topic Selection

What does Jppm Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when testing whether a research question is policy-first enough for the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (JPP&M), and which of its domains and paper shapes it fits…. Jppm Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when testing whether a research question is policy-first enough for the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (JPP&M), and which of its domains and paper shapes it fits, before design and data are locked.

When should I use Jppm Topic Selection?

Jppm Topic Selection fits situations like: testing whether a research question is policy-first enough for the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (JPP&M); which of its domains and paper shapes it fits; before design and data are locked.

How do I install Jppm Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jppm Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Jppm Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Jppm 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 Jppm 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 Jppm Topic Selection use?

Jppm 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 Jppm Topic Selection use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 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 Jppm 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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