Use when building the theoretical argument of a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript into a portable mechanism with testable hypotheses — typically a macro–micro…
Use when reasoning about how an ACL paper travels through ACL Rolling Review and conference commitment, covering reviewer and area-chair roles, meta-reviews, the commitment…
Use when targeting Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) or deciding whether an accounting manuscript fits this venue.
Use when defending the research design of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript — comparative/causal designs for governance…
Use when finalizing a USENIX Security Symposium submission — the per-cycle HotCRP site, the registration deadline a week before the paper deadline, the 13-page body plus mandatory…
Use when a 《世界经济》 (The Journal of World Economy) manuscript stops at "it promoted exports" without showing how an external shock propagates — making the trade / investment /…
Use when targeting Acta Mathematica (Acta Math.) or deciding whether a pure-mathematics manuscript meets the bar of one of the most selective journals in the field.
Use when targeting The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology or deciding whether a diabetes, endocrine, or metabolic study fits this venue.
Use when targeting 《南开经济研究》(Nankai Economic Studies — 南开大学经济学院主办的综合性经济学双月刊, 1985 年创刊, CSSCI/北大核心, 不收版面费/审稿费) or deciding whether a Chinese econ manuscript fits this venue.
Use when targeting 《财贸经济》(Finance and Trade Economics — 中国社会科学院主管、财经战略研究院主办的月刊, 2016 年起仅网络在线投稿) or deciding whether a public-finance/tax/trade-circulation manuscript fits this…
Use when packaging artifacts for USENIX Security Symposium evaluation — the mandatory Phase-1 availability check that acceptance is conditional on, the optional Phase-2 push for…
Use when making an NDSS paper's results reconstructible — snapshotting live-network observations, pinning testbeds and toolchains, scrubbing traces that carry identities, and…
Use when deciding whether a result is COLT-shaped (Conference on Learning Theory) — a theorem-first learning-theory contribution — versus better routed to ALT, STOC/FOCS,…
Use when articulating the original theoretical contribution for 《中国社会科学》 (Social Sciences in China) — turning empirical findings into a concept / proposition / analytical…
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) proposal or manuscript — email-based submission, the accessibility bar, AEA front…
Use when planning or managing a full OSDI cycle — the December title-registration and submission deadlines on HotCRP, the silent no-rebuttal review window, March notification, the…
Use when you must identify which theoretical conversation an Academy of Management Review (AMR) manuscript enters and how it "challenges and extends" that conversation.
Use when deciding whether an environmental-change project fits Global Environmental Change (GEC) and how to frame it.
Use when assembling the data and code deposit for a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript under its mandatory replication policy — especially geocoded, restricted, or…
Use when targeting ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue.
Use when targeting Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM) or deciding whether an environmental- or resource-economics manuscript fits this venue.
Use when planning an IEEE ICDE project timeline around the two-round-per-edition calendar, choosing between the June and November research deadlines, budgeting for a possible…
Use when targeting IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue.
Use when targeting JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) or deciding whether a clinical medicine manuscript fits this venue.
Use when you need to understand how Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) evaluates a manuscript — an editorial-committee screen before external…
Use when a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) decision letter arrives and you must plan a revision and response that satisfies a cross-disciplinary referee pair.
Use when scoping or pitching a topic for a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript — testing whether the question is a genuine law-economics-organization /…
Use when building or auditing the robustness section of a 《中国工业经济》 (China Industrial Economics) manuscript — the journal's signature "arms race." Drives an exhaustive checklist:…
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for a Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) manuscript — Springer Editorial Manager portal, double-anonymized…
Use when polishing prose, the 100-word abstract, and the introduction for a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) manuscript — Chicago author-date references, the 20,000-word economy,…
Use when writing the response to a Global Environmental Change (GEC) revise decision. GEC reviewers are interdisciplinary and often disagree across disciplines, so the response…
Use when targeting 《经济体制改革》(Reform of Economic System — 四川省社会科学院主管主办的经济理论 CSSCI 双月刊, 1983 年创刊, FounderSS 在线投审稿) or deciding whether a Chinese social-science/econ/management…
Use when deciding whether a linguistics project fits Language (Linguistic Society of America) and how to frame it.
Use for the pre-submission preflight to 《中国工业经济》 (China Industrial Economics) — checking length (~2.5万字/18+ pages), 450–500-char abstract + 3–5 keywords, the five abstract…
Use when targeting The Web Conference (WWW) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue.
Use when polishing prose and formatting citations for an Art Bulletin article to The Chicago Manual of Style — endnotes (not author-date), full credit-line captions, and…
Use when targeting Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue.
Use when reasoning about how an IEEE INFOCOM submission is evaluated, covering the large-scale double-blind pipeline, automated paper-reviewer assignment, the two-tier TPC and…
Use when targeting European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue.
Use when building exhibits for an Annual Review of Economics (ARE) review — summary "who-found-what" tables, the conceptual/framework figure, and meta-evidence exhibits that…
Use when a referee report or R&R has arrived for a The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript and a point-by-point response letter plus aligned manuscript revisions are…
Use when running the final delivery preflight for a commissioned Annual Review of Psychology (ARPsych) review via the Annual Reviews production system — disclosures, refe — from…
Use when making the critical move at the heart of a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay — naming what the field misses, mistakes, or takes for granted, and re-ordering…
Use when deciding what lives in the ISSTA 18-page body versus the artifact and any appendix, covering the no-unlimited-appendix reality, what reviewers will and will not open,…
Use when results may be fragile or when multiple-testing / out-of-sample discipline is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript.
Use when a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript needs an explicit economic model or mechanism — either a theory paper's model, or the framework that gives a reduced-form empirical…
Use when targeting 《科研管理》(Science Research Management — 中国科学院科技战略咨询研究院主办的科研/创新管理月刊, 1980 年创刊) or deciding whether a Chinese R&D/innovation-management manuscript fits this venue.
Use when judging whether a game-theory result is the right fit and scale for Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) — does it advance the frontiers of game theory and its applications?…
Use when positioning a UAI submission within the probabilistic reasoning, graphical-model, causality, and Bayesian ML literature, covering PMLR archival status of recent UAI…
Use when designing or auditing the experimental evidence for an INTERSPEECH paper — task-correct metrics (WER/CER, MOS/CMOS, EER/minDCF, PESQ/STOI), baselines reviewers accept,…
Use when sharpening the theoretical contribution and the "so what" for an Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) manuscript once results exist.
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for an Advanced Materials manuscript — article type, format, files, Supporting Information, TOC graphic, ORCID, and metadata…
Use when the empirical identification strategy is the bottleneck for a 《中国农村经济》 manuscript — micro-household / village-level quasi-experimental designs (DID, IV, RDD, PSM).
Use when writing the related-work and positioning of an ICALP (EATCS) theory paper — comparing against the best known bounds in the TCS literature, crediting the right prior…
Use when designing or auditing the evaluation of a SOSP paper — mapping every claim to an experiment, choosing baselines a systems PC will accept as fair, mixing microbenchmarks…
Use when drafting the response to a The Journal of Finance (JF) revise-and-resubmit (or addressing a reject-with-comments).
Use when the prose, intro, abstract, or Highlights of a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) manuscript do not land for an international-finance audience.
Use when judging whether a sociology literature is an Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc)-scale review topic — mature, broadly important, and genuinely in need of an authoritative…
Use when targeting RoboCup Symposium (RoboCup) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue.
Use when positioning a MIS Quarterly manuscript inside the right information-systems conversation — engaging canonical IS work, showing the IT artifact is central, and…