Amj Topic Selection
franklee16/academic-research-skills
A skill your agent uses when scoping or sanity-checking a research question for an Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) manuscript — fit, theory-drivenness, and feasibility.
A skill your agent uses when scoping or sanity-checking the research question for a Research Policy (RP) manuscript — deciding whether it is a genuine innovation-studies question RP owns versus an…
Install Respol Topic Selection
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill respol-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills respol-topic-selection --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection .claude/skills/respol-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "respol-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection into .claude/skills/respol-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "respol-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selectionType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill respol-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills respol-topic-selection --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection .agents/skills/respol-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "respol-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection into .agents/skills/respol-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "respol-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill respol-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills respol-topic-selection --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection .cursor/skills/respol-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "respol-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/respol-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "respol-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill respol-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills respol-topic-selection --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection .gemini/skills/respol-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "respol-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/respol-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "respol-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills respol-topic-selectionInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill respol-topic-selection -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection .github/skills/respol-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "respol-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection into .github/skills/respol-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "respol-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill respol-topic-selection -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills respol-topic-selection --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection .opencode/skills/respol-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "respol-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/respol-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "respol-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
respol-topic-selection- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 574 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when scoping or sanity-checking the research question for a Research Policy (RP) manuscript — deciding whether it is a genuine innovation-studies question RP owns versus an…
- Works in 4 steps: State the question in one sentence as… → Name the innovation-studies conversation… → Identify the policy or managerial… → …
- Tasks that involve Hypothesis generation
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What makes a question a…, Branch test: is this RP, or a… and Sharpening moves, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Respol Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when scoping or sanity-checking the research question for a Research Policy (RP) manuscript — deciding whether it is a genuine innovation-studies question RP owns versus an economics/strategy paper that will desk-reject as out of scope. Frames the question; it does not build the theory (respol-theory-development) or stake the gap (respol-literature-positioning).
Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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
- Tasks that involve Hypothesis generation
Example prompts
- “/respol-topic-selection”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- State the question in one sentence as "How does [innovation phenomenon/policy] affect [innovation outcome], and why does it matter for…
- Name the innovation-studies conversation it joins (e.g., absorptive capacity, sectoral systems, mission-oriented policy…
- Identify the policy or managerial decision your answer would inform; if none exists, the topic is likely better placed elsewhere.
- Check the literature base: if your reference list has no RP / innovation-studies anchors, that is the out-of-scope risk made visible — fix…
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
Respol Topic Selection loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 98 tokens; SKILL.md has 574 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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). 574 words, ~1,349 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/respol-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- respol-topic-selection
- description
- Use when scoping or sanity-checking the research question for a Research Policy (RP) manuscript — deciding whether it is a genuine innovation-studies question RP owns versus an economics/strategy paper that will desk-reject as out of scope. Frames the question; it does not build the theory (respol-theory-development) or stake the gap (respol-literature-positioning).
Topic Selection (respol-topic-selection)
When to trigger
- You are unsure whether the question belongs in RP or in an economics/management outlet
- The paper studies a phenomenon (firms, R&D, patents) but the innovation-studies angle is implicit
- A coauthor asks "is this Research Policy, or is this SMJ / ICC / Technovation?"
- The literature you cite is "almost entirely economics journals or management journals" — RP's classic out-of-scope tell
- The contribution is empirical and clean but has no innovation-theory or STI-policy payoff
What makes a question a Research Policy question
RP publishes work on the emergence, diffusion, and governance of innovation and technological change, read through an innovation-systems lens. A submittable question almost always (a) concerns an object RP owns — R&D, technological change, innovation systems (national/regional/sectoral/technological), science and STI policy, entrepreneurship and technology management, university-industry links, or IP — and (b) advances understanding of how innovation happens or how to govern it, usually carrying a policy or managerial implication. The SPRU/Freeman-Nelson-Pavitt heritage matters: RP rewards questions about systems and institutions of innovation, not just firm-level performance.
The decisive test is the so-what audience: an innovation-studies scholar (or a science/technology policymaker) must care, and your framing must speak to them — not only to labor economists or strategy researchers who happen to share your dataset.
Branch test: is this RP, or a sibling?
| If your core claim is about… | And your audience is… | Likely home |
|---|---|---|
| How an innovation/STI policy or institution shapes technological change | innovation-studies + policy | Research Policy |
| How firms organize R&D, search, recombination to innovate (systems/sector view) | innovation studies | Research Policy |
| A firm's competitive advantage / performance from a resource or strategy lens | strategy scholars | SMJ |
| Industrial dynamics, capabilities, evolutionary economics (firm-centric) | I-O / evolutionary econ | Industrial and Corporate Change |
| Managing a specific technology/innovation in practice | technology managers | Technovation |
| New-product development process and outcomes | NPD / marketing | JPIM |
| A clean causal estimate with no innovation-theory payoff | applied economists | a field economics journal |
If two cells fit, write the framing so the innovation-systems / STI-policy reading is the primary one; RP referees punish papers that "could be anywhere."
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Sharpening moves
- State the question in one sentence as "How does [innovation phenomenon/policy] affect [innovation outcome], and why does it matter for innovation theory and policy?"
- Name the innovation-studies conversation it joins (e.g., absorptive capacity, sectoral systems, mission-oriented policy, science-technology linkage) — not the econometrics conversation.
- Identify the policy or managerial decision your answer would inform; if none exists, the topic is likely better placed elsewhere.
- Check the literature base: if your reference list has no RP / innovation-studies anchors, that is the out-of-scope risk made visible — fix the question or the outlet, not just the citations.
Checklist
- The question names an innovation/STI object RP owns, not just a generic firm/market outcome
- An innovation-studies scholar and a science/technology policymaker would both see why it matters
- The framing reads as innovation studies first, economics/strategy second
- The reference base is anchored in the RP/innovation-studies canon, not only econ/management journals
- The sibling boundary (SMJ / ICC / Technovation / JPIM) is consciously chosen, not accidental
- Current process facts cited are in
resources/official-source-map.mdor marked 待核实
Anti-patterns
- An economics/strategy paper "re-skinned" with the word innovation in the abstract — referees see through it
- A literature review built only from economics or management journals (out-of-scope desk reject)
- A clean estimate with no STI-policy or innovation-theory payoff ("nice result, wrong journal")
- Treating RP as a high-impact outlet of convenience rather than an innovation-studies community
- Inventing exemplar papers, editors, fees, or limits instead of marking 待核实
Output format
【Journal】Research Policy
【Skill】respol-topic-selection
【One-sentence question】innovation phenomenon → innovation outcome → why it matters
【Innovation-studies conversation】the named RP/STI debate it joins
【Policy/managerial payoff】the decision the answer informs
【Sibling boundary】why RP and not SMJ / ICC / Technovation / JPIM
【Out-of-scope risk】is the lit base econ/management-only? [Y/N + fix]
【Verdict】pass / revise / reroute
【Next skill】respol-theory-development© 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 Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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| Respol Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Amj Topic Selectionfranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Hypothesis Generationspacering-net/codeg | 3.9k | 14 repos | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Nature Paper CardYuan1z0825/nature-skills | 47k | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Hypothesis GenerationK-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer | 2.4k | 2 repos | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Good QuestionRimagination/good-question | 305 | 1 repos | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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What does Respol Topic Selection do?
A skill your agent uses when scoping or sanity-checking the research question for a Research Policy (RP) manuscript — deciding whether it is a genuine innovation-studies question RP owns versus an…. Respol Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when scoping or sanity-checking the research question for a Research Policy (RP) manuscript — deciding whether it is a genuine innovation-studies question RP owns versus an economics/strategy paper that will desk-reject as out of scope.
When should I use Respol Topic Selection?
Respol Topic Selection fits situations like: tasks that involve Hypothesis generation.
How do I install Respol Topic Selection in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill respol-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/respol-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Respol Topic Selection in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill respol-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Research-Policy-Skills/skills/respol-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/respol-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Respol 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 respol-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/respol-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/respol-topic-selection, .github/skills/respol-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/respol-topic-selection in your project.
What does Respol Topic Selection need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Respol Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
Does Respol 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 Respol 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 Respol Topic Selection use?
Respol 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 Respol Topic Selection use?
About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Respol Topic Selection?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Respol Topic Selection: Amj Topic Selection (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars), Hypothesis Generation (spacering-net/codeg, 3.9k stars), Nature Paper Card (Yuan1z0825/nature-skills, 47k stars) and Hypothesis Generation (K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer, 2.4k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Respol 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.
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.