Use when deciding whether a public-administration project fits the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART) rather…
Use when deciding whether a linguistics project fits Language (Linguistic Society of America) and how to frame it.
Use when shaping or stress-testing a research question for Management Science (INFORMS) — confirming the decision-relevance bar, choosing…
Use when deciding whether a philosophy project fits Mind and which content type (article, discussion, book review, critical notice) to…
Use when judging whether a topic fits New Media & Society (NM&S) and how to frame it for an interdisciplinary digital-media-and-society…
Use when deciding whether a literary or language-studies project fits PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association) and which…
Use when deciding whether a project fits Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ) and which submission type to target.
Use when deciding whether a public-administration project fits Public Administration Review (PAR) and which article type to target.
Use when scoping or pressure-testing a research question for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) submission — checks fit, the "big…
Use to test whether a research question fits The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) — the flagship industrial-organization journal with a…
Use when deciding whether a project fits World Politics and whether it should be a research article or a review article.
Use when judging whether a literature is a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)-scale survey topic — mature, important, and genuinely in…
Use when judging whether a question is a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS)-scale contribution — broad, integrative…
Use when deciding whether a topic is right for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) — broadly interesting, timely, and synthesizable…
Use when testing whether a research question fits the Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) — a journal whose scope is defined by method 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 scoping or stress-testing the research question for a Human Resource Management (Wiley "HRM") manuscript — confirming an…
Use when deciding whether a question belongs in Human Relations (HR) and how to frame it for the journal's interdisciplinary…
Use when deciding whether a question is right for an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript — international macro-finance with genuine…
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for the Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) — testing economics-based fit…