Use when judging whether a research question is general-interest and economically significant enough for The Journal of Finance (JF), and…
Use when shaping or stress-testing a research question for MIS Quarterly — confirming it is a genuine information-systems question, naming…
Use when choosing or sharpening a topic for a Harvard Law Review (HLR) Article, Essay, or Book Review so it is timely, generalist-legible…
Use when deciding whether a question belongs in Human Relations (HR) and how to frame it for the journal's interdisciplinary…
Use when shaping or sanity-checking a research question for Information Systems Research (ISR) — testing sociotechnical, intradisciplinary…
Use when choosing or sharpening the research question for a Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) manuscript — confirming it…
Use when deciding whether an empirical or theoretical finance manuscript fits the Journal of Banking & Finance (JBF) scope, especially…
Use when shaping or stress-testing a research question for the Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) — confirming the entrepreneurial…
Use when judging whether a research question fits the Journal of Development Economics (JDE) — a first-order question about low- and…
Use when deciding whether a behavioral, experimental, or organizational question fits the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization…
Use when deciding whether a project is a first-order economic-growth question that fits the Journal of Economic Growth (JEG) — a…
Use when checking whether a paper fits the Journal of International Economics (JIE) scope and clears its originality gate — trade patterns…
Use when scoping or pitching a topic for a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript — testing whether the question is…
Use when deciding whether a monetary, banking, credit, or macro-finance question belongs at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking…
Use when shaping or screening a research question for the Journal of Operations Management (JOM) — testing whether operations is genuinely…
Use when deciding whether a question belongs in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) and how to frame it as a risk/uncertainty…
Use when shaping or stress-testing a research question for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) — confirming an…
Use when deciding whether a project fits the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) and how to frame it.
Use when deciding whether a topic is review-worthy for Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) — a large, live, contested literature with real…
Use when assessing whether a research question fits the Journal of Monetary Economics (JME) — monetary theory and policy, central banking…
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for an Organization Science manuscript — testing whether it is a theory-driven…