From jar-skills
Routes manuscript work for Journal of Accounting Research from topic selection through rebuttal by invoking appropriate jar-* sub-skills.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/jar-skills:jar-workflowThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
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.
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.
| 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 |
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.
jar-methods then jar-data-analysisjar-data-analysisjar-theory-development then jar-methodsjar-review-processjar-review-process (deadline, eligibility) then the design skillsjar-submission (fee within a week; data/code package)jar-review-process then jar-rebuttalIf your paper is purely a methods/statistics contribution with no accounting question, or has no identification leverage, JAR is likely the wrong venue.
jar-theory-development and present a regression with no economic channel.jar-tables-figures beautify exhibits before identification is settled.jar-submission without the runnable data-and-code package the policy requires.jar-rebuttal draft a response before the manuscript is actually revised.npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jar-skillsRoutes to specialized tar-* skills for writing a The Accounting Review (TAR) manuscript, from topic selection through rebuttal.
Routes manuscript workflow for JAE (Journal of Accounting and Economics) from topic selection to rebuttal, directing users to appropriate sub-skills.
Explains the JAR review process: editor-panel structure, double-anonymized review, fee gate, desk-rejection risk, and the conference/Registered Reports tracks. Use when reading a decision letter or preparing a submission.