jar-workflow
GitHubJAR论文工作流路由技能，指导从选题到 rebuttal 的各环节。根据稿件状态（如识别策略、数据、审稿意见）推荐对应的 jar-* 子技能，确保符合 JAR 对因果推断和会计故事的高标准。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jar-workflow -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "jar-workflow",
"description": "Use when deciding which jar-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a Journal of Accounting Research (JAR) manuscript. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills."
}
Journal of Accounting Research Workflow (jar-workflow)
Overview
This is the router. It does not replace any specialized skill; it tells you which jar- skill to use right now* for your JAR manuscript.
Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as the Journal of Accounting Research (JAR) — one of the "top three" accounting journals, founded in 1963, sponsored by the Chookaszian Accounting Research Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and published with Wiley-Blackwell (five issues a year). JAR publishes original research in all areas of accounting drawing on finance, economics, statistics, psychology, and sociology, using analytical, empirical-archival, experimental, and field-study methods. Its defining identity is rigorous empirical-archival capital-markets research in the Ball-Brown lineage. The non-negotiable bar: a clean identification strategy answering a question that matters for how accounting information is produced, disclosed, audited, or used in markets — credible causal inference and an economic story weigh as heavily as a sound regression.
Governance is by a panel of Senior Editors (Berger, Costello, Hail, Nikolaev, Sapra, van Lent, Wittenberg Moerman), not a single editor-in-chief; Editorial Manager Lisa M. Heiberger. Fees, the conference theme, and the masthead change — verify on the Chookaszian Center JAR pages. Three things make JAR distinctive: a tiered submission fee ($750/$500/$50), a mandatory data-and-code sharing policy, and the Ray Ball JAR Annual Conference with its June conference issue. Impact factor (~4.9, 2023) is approximate.
When to trigger
- "What should I do next?" with a half-built JAR manuscript
- You have an archival result but no clean identification or economic story
- A referee pushes on endogeneity, the channel, or "what do we learn about accounting?"
- You received a JAR decision letter (R&R or reject) and need to switch into response mode
- You are weighing the Registered Reports track or a Ray Ball Conference submission
Routing table
| Current symptom | Next skill |
|---|---|
| Idea is vague; unsure it is a real accounting question or JAR-fit | jar-topic-selection |
| No economic mechanism; predictions are atheoretical correlations | jar-theory-development |
| Front end reads as gap-spotting; the accounting literature not engaged | jar-literature-positioning |
| Design/identification may not support the causal claim | jar-methods |
| Have data; unsure about clustering, endogeneity, measurement of constructs | jar-data-analysis |
| Results exist but "so what for accounting" is thin | jar-contribution-framing |
| Tables/figures cluttered, off house style, or not self-explanatory | jar-tables-figures |
| Prose buries the research design and the economic argument | jar-writing-style |
| Ready to submit; need the Research Exchange + fee + data/code preflight | jar-submission |
| Want to understand JAR review, fees, or the conference/RR tracks | jar-review-process |
| Received an R&R; need to plan revisions and draft the response | jar-rebuttal |
Default order
jar-topic-selection— lock an accounting question with a credible setting and JAR fitjar-theory-development— build the economic mechanism and sign the predictionsjar-literature-positioning— engage the accounting conversation; state the marginal contributionjar-methods— choose the identification strategy and the sample/settingjar-data-analysis— clustering, endogeneity, construct measurement, robustnessjar-contribution-framing— turn the estimate into a contribution to accounting knowledgejar-tables-figures— finalize the main descriptive/results/identification exhibitsjar-writing-style— full-manuscript prose polish (design-forward, economically literate)jar-submission— Research Exchange preflight (anonymization, fee, data-and-code package)jar-review-process— set expectations for the editor-panel, multi-round processjar-rebuttal— after an R&R, revise then draft the point-by-point response
jar-tables-figuresandjar-writing-styleare late-stage polish. Do not invoke them while identification or the economic story is still unsettled.
Decision shortcuts
- "Archival result, treatment looks endogenous" →
jar-methodsthenjar-data-analysis - "Two-way clustering vs. firm-only?" →
jar-data-analysis - "Referee says the channel is unidentified" →
jar-theory-developmentthenjar-methods - "High-outcome-risk study with new data collection" → consider Registered Reports via
jar-review-process - "Targeting the Ray Ball Conference" →
jar-review-process(deadline, eligibility) then the design skills - "Submitting next week" →
jar-submission(fee within a week; data/code package) - "Got an R&R from the editor panel" →
jar-review-processthenjar-rebuttal
Difference vs. TAR / JAE / RAST / CAR stacks
- JAR: Chicago Booth (Chookaszian Center) / Wiley; empirical-archival capital-markets identity; requires data-and-code sharing; tiered fee; Ray Ball Conference; Registered Reports. Identification + economic story weighted heavily.
- The Accounting Review (TAR): American Accounting Association journal; broad scope; no equivalent mandatory replication-hosting infrastructure.
- Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE): Elsevier; positive/economics-based, contracting and disclosure; encourages rather than requires code sharing.
- Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) / Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR): strong empirical outlets with their own scopes and norms.
If your paper is purely a methods/statistics contribution with no accounting question, or has no identification leverage, JAR is likely the wrong venue.
Stage ledger (maintain this in the conversation)
Keep an explicit, auditable ledger of where the JAR manuscript sits and what each gate still needs. JAR's identity — clean identification plus an economic story, enforced by a Senior Editor panel and a mandatory data-and-code package — makes the "identification settled?" and "code package runnable?" rows load-bearing:
JAR MANUSCRIPT STAGE LEDGER
===========================
Question / setting : ______ JAR-fit rung: analytical | archival | experimental | field
Identification : shock/DID | IV | RD | structural | descriptive-only (FIX)
Economic channel : named & signed? ______
Stage gates (✓ / ✗ / n/a):
[ ] jar-topic-selection accounting question that matters; credible setting
[ ] jar-theory-development mechanism built; predictions signed
[ ] jar-literature-positioning conversation named; marginal contribution stated
[ ] jar-methods identification strategy defensible
[ ] jar-data-analysis clustering, endogeneity, construct measurement, robustness
[ ] jar-contribution-framing estimate → contribution to accounting knowledge
[ ] jar-tables-figures exhibits self-explanatory, house style
[ ] jar-writing-style design-forward, economically literate prose
[ ] jar-submission Research Exchange preflight; anonymized; fee tier chosen
[ ] data-and-code package runnable; matches tables; deposit-ready (POLICY: mandatory)
[ ] jar-review-process track chosen: regular | Registered Report | Ray Ball Conference
[ ] jar-rebuttal (R&R only) revise first, then point-by-point
Fee tier : $750 | $500 | $50 (verify current schedule on Chookaszian JAR pages)
Current bottleneck : ______ Next skill: jar-______
Refresh the ledger after each sub-skill. A ✗ on identification or the data-and-code package blocks jar-submission regardless of how polished the prose is.
Anti-patterns
- Do not skip
jar-theory-developmentand present a regression with no economic channel. - Do not let
jar-tables-figuresbeautify exhibits before identification is settled. - Do not start
jar-submissionwithout the runnable data-and-code package the policy requires. - Do not let
jar-rebuttaldraft a response before the manuscript is actually revised.
Version History
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