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eer-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a question is a fit for the European Economic Review (EER) — general-interest across all of economics — rather than a field journal, JEEA, or The Economic Journal. Diagnoses fit and reframes for breadth; it does not build the identification or the model.
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# Topic Selection & Fit (eer-topic-selection)
## When to trigger
- You are unsure whether the paper is "EER-shaped" or belongs in a field outlet
- A reviewer/colleague said the question is "too narrow" or "of interest only to specialists"
- You are choosing among EER, JEEA, The Economic Journal, or an Elsevier field journal
- The contribution reads as an incremental field increment, not a broad-interest result
## The EER fit bar
EER is **Elsevier's general-interest European economics journal** (founded 1969), publishing **all fields, theory and empirical**. The defining test is **breadth of interest**: would an economist *outside* your subfield find the question, the answer, or the method worth knowing? EER is not Europe-restricted in topic (the name is institutional), and it is not a methods-first journal — it wants a substantive economic result that travels. Calibrate against the desk-reject filter: editors screen out-of-scope or low-novelty work **before review** (and the submission fee is non-refundable), so the breadth case must be visible on page one.
## Fit decision table