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jm-rebuttal
GitHub专为《Journal of Marketing》修改与回复（R&R）设计，指导作者先修订论文再撰写逐点回复信。重点回应编辑关于实质新颖性、管理相关性及识别策略的核心关切，遵循双盲规则，并准备透明度交付物以提升录用概率。
Trigger Scenarios
收到JM重大或轻微修改意见
审稿人质疑实质性贡献、相关性或识别方法
需要展示自上一轮修订以来的进展
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jm-rebuttal -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "jm-rebuttal",
"description": "Use when planning a revision and drafting the point-by-point response letter for a Journal of Marketing (JM) R&R — prioritizing the Coeditor's decisive concerns, strengthening substantive novelty and managerial relevance, and keeping the double-anonymized rules. Plans and drafts the response; it does not interpret the original decision (jm-review-process)."
}
R&R Revision & Response (jm-rebuttal)
When to trigger
- You received a JM major/minor revision and need a plan and a response letter
- A reviewer challenged the substantive contribution, relevance, or identification
- You must revise before writing the response (do not draft the letter on an unrevised paper)
- A subsequent round arrived and you need to show movement since the last revision
Sequence: revise first, then respond
JM R&Rs are developmental and often multi-round. Revise the manuscript first; the response letter documents changes that already exist. Lead the work with the Coeditor's decisive concerns — at JM these almost always include the two gatekeeping bars: substantive novelty (compelling new insight, not a new-context replication) and managerial/policy/societal relevance. A revision that polishes peripheral points but leaves a gatekeeping concern unaddressed will not advance.
Build the response letter
- Open with a brief summary of the most important changes and how the paper is stronger on JM's substantive-and-relevance bar.
- Point-by-point: restate each comment, then state the change, with page/line or section pointers to the revised manuscript (remember: no line numbers in the file — cite sections/pages or quote the revised text).
- Quote new text inline so the editor sees the change without hunting.
- Stay anonymized: no author-revealing language anywhere in the letter or revised files; keep any preregistration links anonymized.
- Be candid on disagreements: where you decline a suggestion, explain respectfully with evidence; do not silently ignore a comment.
Address JM-specific concerns head-on
- "Incremental / new-context" → strengthen and foreground the new mechanism, reversal, boundary condition, or decisive magnitude; revise the contribution sentences (see
jm-contribution-framing). - "So what for practice?" → add or sharpen the managerial/policy/societal implications, quantified in real units (lift, CLV, WTP, welfare).
- "Identification is weak" → add the design-appropriate fix (better instrument, parallel-trends evidence, additional experiment, robustness/placebo tests) per
jm-data-analysis. - "Significance without magnitude" → ensure exact p-values, SEs, and effect sizes are reported throughout, in managerial units where possible.
- Scope challenge (too methods-y / too general-management) → re-center the paper on the substantive marketing question and its real-world stakes.
Prepare transparency deliverables
If the revision is heading toward conditional acceptance, line up the JM Dataverse replication packet (data + analysis scripts, or qualitative materials), confirm the Data Availability Statement, and prepare preregistration links and the attestation. Doing this during the R&R avoids a scramble at acceptance.
Checklist
- Manuscript revised before the letter was drafted
- Coeditor's decisive concerns addressed first
- Substantive-novelty and managerial-relevance challenges answered explicitly
- Point-by-point letter with section/page pointers and quoted new text
- Exact p-values, SEs, effect sizes verified throughout after revision
- Identification/robustness additions completed where requested
- Anonymization preserved in letter and files (incl. prereg links)
- Replication packet / Data Availability Statement prepared if nearing acceptance
Anti-patterns
- Letter before revision — promising changes not yet made.
- Cosmetic edits to a gatekeeping (novelty/relevance) concern.
- Defensive non-answers that dodge a reviewer's point.
- Reintroducing identity in the response or revised files.
- Over-claiming new results beyond what the added analysis supports.
Output format
【Revision done first】yes/no
【Coeditor decisive concerns addressed】[...]
【Novelty + relevance answers】[...]
【Identification/robustness additions】[...]
【Exact-statistic check】p / SE / effect size verified post-revision?
【Letter】point-by-point with pointers + quoted text drafted?
【Anonymization】preserved (incl. prereg links)?
【Transparency】JM Dataverse + DAS readiness if nearing acceptance: [...]
【Next step】resubmit via ScholarOne → jm-review-process for the next round
Version History
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