From rof-skills
Evaluates whether a finance research idea meets the Review of Finance (RoF) general-interest bar, assessing first-order questions, empirical-theoretical fit, and top-three-journal referee standards before submission.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/rof-skills:rof-topic-selectionThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- The question feels incremental or sub-field-only ("yet another anomaly")
RoF publishes general-interest finance at the level of the top-three finance journals, as the official journal of the European Finance Association (EFA). Its referees are explicitly asked to apply top-three-finance-journal standards, so the screening question is "would this interest the broad finance audience and survive a top-three referee?" RoF is genuinely both empirical and theoretical — asset pricing, corporate finance, banking, household finance, microstructure on the empirical side; asset-pricing theory, security/contract design, microstructure theory on the theory side. A clean theoretical result with a sharp economic message fits as well as a credible empirical finding.
rof-identification-strategy); a theory paper needs clean assumptions, a non-obvious result, and economic interpretation.Illustrative. Candidate A: "Do Italian cooperative banks lend differently?" — single-country, descriptive; fails the generality test unless rebuilt around what cooperative ownership reveals about lending under soft information everywhere, with a cross-country counterpart. As posed, it is a field-journal paper. Candidate B: "Does deposit-insurance design change bank risk-taking? Evidence from staggered EU coverage harmonization" — institution-driven variation across many countries, a first-order question with both an empirical and a theoretical audience inside RoF's scope. Verdict: B clears the bar as-is; A needs the reframe before the fee is worth paying.
rof-submission).【Question】one sentence, plain language
【Type】empirical / theoretical / both
【First-order?】[Y/N] — why
【Top-three-standard?】[Y/N]
【General lesson】beyond this setting: ...
【Verdict】RoF-fit / redirect / reframe
【Next step】rof-contribution-framing
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin rof-skillsUse when judging whether a research question is general-interest and economically significant enough for The Journal of Finance (JF), and when sharpening the framing. Tests fit and contribution; it does not design the empirics.
Evaluates whether a finance manuscript fits Review of Finance, including fit, framing, method bar, house style, and desk-reject risks.
Tests whether a research question fits the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) before submission, evaluating scope fit and quantitative-evidence bar.