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Use when deciding whether a project is a strong AAAI submission across its broad AI scope, should be reframed or routed to a dedicated track such as AI for Social Impact or AI Alignment, or should instead go to IJCAI, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, UAI, ACL, CVPR, KDD, CHI, ICRA, or another specialis…

Use when auditing an AAMAS main-track submission for OpenReview readiness, the 8-page-plus-references limit, the full-paper versus 2-page extended-abstract choice, double-blind anonymity, the supplementary zip cap, track fit across the AAAI/JAAMAS/Blue Sky tracks, dual-submission rules, and desk-rej…

Use when auditing an ACM MM (ACM Multimedia) submission for OpenReview readiness — thematic-area choice, the 6-8 page ACM sigconf budget, references-only overflow, double-blind anonymity versus the single-blind Reproducibility/Open-Source/Dataset tracks, supplementary media, dual submission, desk-re…

Use when an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) decision letter arrives (R&R or conditional accept) and a response-to-referees letter plus a revision plan must be drafted.

Use when anticipating the objections a sophisticated American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) referee will raise, so a manuscript pre-empts them before submission or addresses them in revision.

Use when assembling the data and code replication package for an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript to pass the AEA Data and Code Availability Policy and the AEA Data Editor's pre-publication reproducibility check.

Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript via the AEA ScholarOne system — single-blind review front matter, JEL codes, submission and publication fees, format, disclosures, and AEA data-policy readiness.

Use when an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript needs a model to interpret, discipline, or structure its empirical estimates — not to lead the paper.

Use when placing the contribution against the policy-evaluation literature and sharpening it as a policy answer for an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript. Stakes the contribution and the policy-relevant "so what"; it does not write the full introduction or design the identification.

Use when an AEJ: Economic Policy decision letter (R&R or reject-and-resubmit) has arrived and a response-letter strategy and revision plan are needed.

Use when anticipating how AEJ: Economic Policy referees and editors will read a manuscript, before submission or before an R&R, to pre-empt the objections that sink policy-evaluation papers.

Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for AEJ: Economic Policy via the AEA online submission system — single-blind review front matter, JEL codes, submission and publication fees, format, the Data and Code Availability Statement, and disclosure. Final checks; it does not draft content.

Use when an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript needs a framework that maps reduced-form estimates into a welfare, cost-benefit, or distributional policy object — sufficient statistics, MVPF, optimal-policy, or a small applied model.

Use when deciding whether a project fits AEJ: Economic Policy rather than J. Public Economics, AEJ: Applied, or AER, and when sharpening the policy question and its welfare stake for an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript.

Use when the contribution of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript relative to the macro frontier is fuzzy, contested, or undersold.

Use when an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) decision letter has arrived (R&R or reject-with-comments) and you need a response-letter strategy and revision plan.

Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) via the AEA submission system — membership-scaled fee, JEL codes, PDF and length rules, ≤100-word abstract, disclosure statements, and data/code readiness.

Use when building or revising exhibits for an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript — impulse-response figures, fan charts, model-fit overlays, and regression/moment tables — to AEA house standards and macro conventions.

Use when the quantitative model is the bottleneck for an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript — DSGE, New Keynesian, heterogeneous-agent (HANK / Aiyagari-Bewley), or structural estimation — and calibration, parameter identification, solution accuracy, or counterfactual v…

Use when deciding whether a macro paper fits the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) rather than AER, J. Monetary Economics, RED, or AEJ: Applied. Tests the broad-interest macro bar and venue fit; it does not write the paper or fix identification.

Use when drafting the response letter and revision plan after an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) R&R. Structures the reply to theory referees (correctness, generality, exposition) and editor; it does not re-derive the result (see aejmic-theory-model).

Use when assembling the proof appendix and any code/data deposit for an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript under the AEA Data and Code Availability Policy.

Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) via the AEA submission system — single-blind review, the 100-word abstract, JEL classification, the submission fee, format, and the AEA Data and Code Availability Policy.

Use when presenting results for an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript — propositions, numerical examples, schematic theory figures, and empirical/experimental tables. Builds exhibits to AEA house norms; it does not derive the results (see aejmic-theory-model).

Use when deciding whether a microeconomics project fits the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) rather than JET, GEB, Theoretical Economics, Econometrica, or AEJ: Applied. Tests scope and broad-interest fit; it does not develop the model (see aejmic-theory-model).

Use when positioning the contribution of an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript against the closest published work in one or two tight paragraphs. Stakes the gap concisely; it does not write the full literature review (there is no room for one).

Use when calibrating expectations for the fast, decisive American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) review process — conditional-accept-or-reject decisions, the single-round model, and pre-empting the objections a short paper cannot afford.

Use when assembling the data and code deposit for an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript to pass the AEA Data and Code Availability Policy and the AEA Data Editor's pre-publication reproducibility check.

Use when deciding which robustness checks belong in the few in-text words of an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript versus the online Supplemental Appendix. Triages checks against the length cap; it does not design the identification (see aeri-identification).

Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) via the AEA/ScholarOne submission system — the word-count and exhibit-count gates, abstract limit, fees, author metadata, declarations, and the AEA Data and Code Availability Policy.

Use when building or trimming the exhibits of an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript to the hard five-exhibit budget, one page each, no significance asterisks. Designs the minimum exhibit set; it does not run the analysis behind them.

Use when a model — a full theory paper's argument or the structural/conceptual scaffolding behind an empirical AER: Insights short-format manuscript — needs to be made minimal, so it carries the single insight in a few pages.

Use when deciding whether a project is the ONE crisp, important, well-identified insight that an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript requires, rather than a multi-result paper for AER or a field paper for the AEJ family.

Use when building the reproducibility story for an ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) systems paper — pinning testbed and software environments, providing a turnkey path from the artifact to the headline numbers, and preparing an anonymized-but-runnable review package…

Use when planning around the two-step proposal→invited-review process of the Academy of Management Annals (Annals) — the twice-yearly proposal cadence, double-blind proposal review, the editor-only full-review development, and timelines.

Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for an Academy of Management Annals (Annals) proposal or invited full review via the Manuscript Central portal — proposal-vs-invited-review route, deadlines, formatting, CV, and anonymity. Final checks; it does not draft content.

Use when building exhibits for an Academy of Management Annals (Annals) review — the signature framework figure, who-studied-what synthesis tables, and search/coverage exhibits that summarize across a literature.