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GitHub用于评估金融论文是否适合《Journal of Finance》投稿，涵盖定位、选题匹配度、方法证据标准及拒稿风险。辅助作者重构框架以符合顶刊要求，并提供替代期刊建议。
Trigger Scenarios
作者指定JF或金融三大刊为目标投稿期刊
拥有新颖洞察的金融论文需在JF/JFE/RFS间选择
需将应用数据论文重构为金融贡献而非经济/会计视角
需要了解JF拒稿风险及顶级替代期刊列表
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill journal-of-finance -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "journal-of-finance",
"description": "Use when targeting Journal of Finance (JF) or deciding whether a finance manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
Journal of Finance (journal-of-finance)
Journal positioning
The Journal of Finance is the official journal of the American Finance Association and, with JFE and RFS, one of the finance "top-3." It publishes the most consequential work across asset pricing, corporate finance, banking/intermediation, and household finance, judged on whether the question and result move the field. The readership is the whole finance profession plus financial economists in economics departments, so a paper must matter beyond its niche.
This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the AFA / Wiley site and the editorial submission system.
When to trigger
- The author names JF (or the finance top-3) as the target venue.
- A finance paper has a clean design or a genuinely new asset-pricing/corporate-finance insight and the author is choosing among JF / JFE / RFS.
- An applied paper using financial data needs re-framing into a finance contribution rather than an economics or accounting one.
- The author needs JF's desk-reject risks and a credible top-3 / top-field alternative list.
Scope & topic fit
- Asset pricing (empirical and theoretical), cross-section of returns, factor models — but the bar for "new factor / new anomaly" papers is now very high.
- Corporate finance, governance, M&A, capital structure, payout, with credible identification.
- Financial intermediation, banking, liquidity, market microstructure, household and behavioral finance.
- Empirical regularities that are robust and economically meaningful, not data-mined.
Method & evidence bar
- Identification and economic mechanism, not just significant loadings: a return predictor or corporate-finance effect must survive standard-error corrections, alternative explanations, and out-of-sample / placebo scrutiny.
- Asset-pricing empirics are held to current inference standards (multiple-testing/p-hacking concerns, proper standard errors, factor-zoo skepticism).
- Corporate-finance causal claims need a real source of variation (shocks, regulation, discontinuities), with the usual DiD/IV/RDD rigor and pre-empted confounders.
- Theory must deliver testable, economically interpretable implications, not only existence results.
Structure & house style
- The introduction states the question, the economic mechanism, the identification, and the headline magnitude early, and explains why it matters for finance broadly.
- Distinguish the contribution from the nearest JF/JFE/RFS papers explicitly; "no one has tested X" is not a contribution.
- JF uses an unstructured abstract and JEL codes; an Internet Appendix carries robustness and secondary results.
- Exhibits report economic magnitudes (not only t-stats); the central result should be readable from one table.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the official source anchors for this journal family, then cite the current journal-specific page you checked. - Search the live site for "Journal of Finance submission guidelines" and follow the current AFA/Wiley version.
- Re-check the submission fee, formatting, abstract/JEL, anonymization, and the disclosure policy (data sources, conflicts, prior circulation).
- Re-check the current data/code and Internet Appendix requirements and any replication expectations.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- One sentence stating why this result matters to the broad finance profession.
- The contribution is stated as mechanism / identification / new measurement, not as a significant coefficient.
- The introduction positions the paper against the most recent JF/JFE/RFS work on this question.
- Inference is robust to current standards (clustering, multiple testing, out-of-sample, placebo).
- Disclosure, data sources, and the Internet Appendix are ready.
Common desk-reject triggers
- A "new anomaly / new factor" paper that does not clear the multiple-testing and robustness bar.
- A corporate-finance regression with endogeneity and no credible source of variation.
- Significant coefficients reported without economic magnitude or mechanism.
- A paper that is really accounting (
the-accounting-review,journal-of-accounting-and-economics) or economics (journal-of-political-economy) framed as finance.
Re-routing decision
- Excellent but more specialized →
journal-of-financial-economics(often more empirical/structural) orreview-of-financial-studies. - Second-tier-elite finance →
review-of-finance,journal-of-financial-and-quantitative-analysis,journal-of-financial-intermediation. - Banking/markets/international →
journal-of-banking-and-finance,journal-of-financial-markets,journal-of-international-money-and-finance. - Accounting-information or disclosure core → the accounting venues; macro-finance →
journal-of-monetary-economics.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Journal of Finance
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest topics>
[Method/evidence] <does the identification / mechanism clear the finance top-3 bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <submission system / fee / disclosure / Internet Appendix / data>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
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