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GitHub用于评估会计手稿是否适合《Journal of Accounting Research》期刊。涵盖定位、触发场景、主题范围、实证门槛、写作风格及撤稿风险，辅助作者进行投稿决策与重构。
Trigger Scenarios
作者指定JAR为目标期刊
需要评估档案资本市场或分析型会计论文的适配度
寻求JAR的拒稿风险预警或替代期刊建议
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill journal-of-accounting-research -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "journal-of-accounting-research",
"description": "Use when targeting Journal of Accounting Research (JAR) or deciding whether an accounting 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 Accounting Research (journal-of-accounting-research)
Journal positioning
JAR, published out of Chicago Booth, is one of accounting's "big three" and the standard-bearer for economics-based, empirically rigorous accounting research. Its core is archival capital-markets and analytical work judged on the strength of the research design and identification, with a famously high empirical bar. JAR runs an annual conference issue that publishes new, discussant-vetted research. Readership is the economics-oriented accounting and accounting-finance community.
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 JAR / Chicago Booth / Wiley site and the submission system.
When to trigger
- The author names JAR (or the economics-based accounting top tier) as the target venue.
- An archival capital-markets or analytical accounting paper with a clean design and strong identification needs positioning.
- An accounting paper whose strength is its identification strategy needs framing for the highest empirical bar.
- The author needs JAR's desk-reject risks and a credible JAE / TAR / RAST alternative list, or wants to consider the annual conference issue.
Scope & topic fit
- Capital-markets accounting: information content of disclosure, earnings, analysts, market efficiency, and price formation.
- Economics of disclosure and reporting, contracting, and the consequences of regulation and standards.
- Analytical accounting theory with empirically relevant implications.
- Auditing, tax, and managerial questions when framed with an economics lens and strong identification.
Method & evidence bar
- Identification is paramount: causal claims need a credible source of exogenous variation (shocks, regulation, discontinuities) and careful pre-emption of confounders.
- Inference must be correct and conservative: clustering, standard-error choices, and robustness are scrutinized; descriptive associations are not enough for causal claims.
- Measurement and construct choices must be defended; results should be economically meaningful, not just statistically significant.
- Analytical submissions need rigorous models with implications that connect to data or institutions.
Structure & house style
- The introduction states the economic question, the identification strategy, and the contribution up front, distinguishing it from the closest prior work.
- A strong JAR paper foregrounds the research design and treats robustness/falsification as central, not appendix afterthoughts.
- JAR expects an online appendix for additional tests and a strong data/code transparency posture.
- Writing is spare and economics-flavored; magnitudes and mechanisms matter more than significance stars.
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 Accounting Research submission guidelines / author instructions" and follow the current version, including any conference-issue call.
- Re-check submission fee, formatting, abstract conventions, anonymization, reference style, and the online-appendix requirement.
- Re-check current data and code availability / replication policies and disclosure/ethics requirements.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- One sentence stating the economic question and the identification that answers it.
- The contribution is stated as identification / economic mechanism, not as a significant coefficient.
- Inference, robustness, and falsification tests meet JAR's standards.
- The introduction positions the paper against the closest recent JAR / JAE work.
- Data/code transparency and the online appendix are ready per the current guide.
Common desk-reject triggers
- An archival association presented as causal with no credible exogenous variation.
- Endogeneity or selection left unaddressed; robustness treated as optional.
- A descriptive or measurement paper with no economic question or identification.
- A paper that is really finance or economics with no distinct accounting contribution.
Re-routing decision
- Economics-based accounting with contracting/disclosure/positive-theory emphasis →
journal-of-accounting-and-economics. - Broad accounting across methods →
the-accounting-review; analytical/empirical valuation and information economics →review-of-accounting-studies. - Methodologically pluralistic elite →
contemporary-accounting-research; interpretive/critical →accounting-organizations-and-society. - Capital-markets work that is really finance →
journal-of-finance/journal-of-financial-economics; economics-core → a field economics venue.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Journal of Accounting Research
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest topics>
[Method/evidence] <does the identification clear JAR's empirical bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <submission system / fee / conference issue / online appendix / data-code>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
Version History
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