From tar-skills
Frames accounting research findings into explicit contribution statements for TAR manuscripts, calibrating claims to evidence and addressing reviewer concerns about incremental contribution.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/tar-skills:tar-contribution-framingThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- Results are in but the intro/discussion does not say what the field *learns*
TAR's overriding publication criterion is the significance of the contribution to the accounting literature. Method openness means a clean identification or an elegant model is necessary but not sufficient — the paper must change how accounting researchers (and, where relevant, standard-setters, auditors, regulators, or managers) think. Frame the contribution as a new answer to a disputed question, not a new dataset or a confirmed prior.
tar-literature-positioning) and state the
marginal insight: "We show that [accounting construct] affects [outcome] through [channel],
which prior work could not separate from [rival]." Tie it to the friction in
tar-theory-development.【Contribution (1 sentence)】the field now knows ...
【To literature】resolves the dispute between ... and ...
【To method/measure】(if any) ...
【To practice/policy】(only if earned) ...
【Causal calibration】causes / associated-with — matches identification? yes/no
【Boundary conditions】setting / period / population ...
【Next step】tar-tables-figures, then tar-writing-style
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin tar-skillsFrames results as an explicit contribution for a Contemporary Accounting Research manuscript, adapting to archival, experimental, or analytical traditions.
Frames explicit contribution statements for JAR manuscripts from empirical results. Guides writing of contribution sentences, economic magnitudes, and implications for accounting research.
Sharpens thin accounting contributions into one defensible claim for RAST manuscripts, calibrating the claim to empirical, analytical, or experimental evidence.