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journal-of-risk-and-uncertainty
GitHub用于评估稿件是否适合Journal of Risk and Uncertainty，提供选题匹配、重构建议及拒稿风险预判。覆盖期望效用、模糊性与行为决策等主题，强调理论严谨性与实验设计的判别力，并包含投稿前官方指南复核提示。
Trigger Scenarios
作者指定JRU为目标期刊
涉及风险偏好或不确定性决策的论文需专业定位
行为/实验论文需向决策理论贡献重构
查询JRU拒稿风险及替代期刊
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill journal-of-risk-and-uncertainty -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "journal-of-risk-and-uncertainty",
"description": "Use when targeting Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) or deciding whether a decision-under-risk 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 Risk and Uncertainty (journal-of-risk-and-uncertainty)
Journal positioning
The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty is the leading specialist journal on decision-making under risk and uncertainty. It publishes work on expected utility and its alternatives, ambiguity, behavioral decision theory, and the valuation of risks to life and health — spanning economics, psychology, and decision science. What wins here is a paper that advances how we model or measure choice under risk: a new theory of preferences, a clean test discriminating among models, or a credible valuation of risk. The readership is decision theorists, risk-and-insurance economists, and behavioral researchers.
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 Springer / journal site and the submission system.
When to trigger
- The author names JRU as the target venue.
- A paper on risk preferences, ambiguity, or risk valuation needs a specialist decision-science home.
- A behavioral or experimental paper centers on choice under risk/uncertainty and needs re-framing toward the decision-theory contribution.
- The author needs JRU's desk-reject risks and a credible decision-science / behavioral alternative list.
Scope & topic fit
- Expected utility theory and non-expected-utility alternatives (prospect theory, rank-dependent, etc.); axiomatic and behavioral models of risk preference.
- Ambiguity and decision under uncertainty: models, measurement, and experimental tests.
- Behavioral decision theory: framing, probability weighting, reference dependence, and anomalies.
- Valuation of risk, including value of statistical life, health and mortality risk, and risk-related insurance and policy questions.
Method & evidence bar
- Theory must be precise and decision-theoretically grounded; new preference models need clear axioms or testable structure, not loose stories.
- Experimental work needs clean design that genuinely discriminates among competing models, with proper incentives and inference.
- Empirical valuation needs credible identification and careful measurement of risk and willingness-to-pay.
- The contribution must be about decision-making under risk/uncertainty specifically, not a generic behavioral or applied result.
Structure & house style
- The introduction should state the decision-theoretic question, what existing models miss, and how the paper resolves or tests it.
- Frame the contribution as a model, a discriminating test, or a valuation advance — situate it among the standard risk-preference models.
- Use an abstract and (where applicable) JEL codes; relegate proofs, instructions, and robustness to appendices.
- Exhibits should make the model comparison or valuation legible, with clear treatment of incentives and parameter estimates.
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 Risk and Uncertainty submission guidelines / instructions for authors" and follow the current Springer version.
- Re-check word/figure limits, abstract and JEL/keyword requirements, reference style, anonymization expectations, and disclosure.
- Re-check the current data and code availability policy, experimental-materials / pre-registration expectations, and ethics approval for human-subjects experiments.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- One sentence stating how this advances modeling or measurement of choice under risk/uncertainty.
- The contribution is stated as a preference model / discriminating test / valuation, not as a significant effect.
- The design genuinely discriminates among competing risk models or credibly identifies a valuation.
- Incentives, inference, ethics, and experimental materials meet current standards.
- The paper is centrally about risk/uncertainty, not generic behavioral economics.
Common desk-reject triggers
- A generic behavioral or applied paper with no specific decision-under-risk contribution.
- A new "anomaly" demonstration that does not discriminate among existing models or advance theory.
- An experiment with weak incentives, confounded design, or no model-testing payoff.
- A valuation study with no credible identification of the risk–WTP relationship.
Re-routing decision
- Broad behavioral / institutional / experimental economics →
journal-of-economic-behavior-and-organization. - Decision-theoretic results aimed at general theory audiences →
journal-of-economic-theoryorgames-and-economic-behavior. - Risk valuation as health policy →
journal-of-health-economics; as public policy →journal-of-public-economics. - Finance-risk / asset-pricing framing →
journal-of-finance.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest topics>
[Method/evidence] <does the decision-under-risk contribution clear this venue's bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <submission system / JEL-keywords / data-code / pre-registration / ethics>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
Version History
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