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arecon-topic-selection
Use when judging whether a literature is an Annual Review of Economics (ARE)-scale review topic — mature, important, and genuinely in need of an authoritative, accessible synthesis — and framing the review's animating question. Decides fit; it does not gather the literature (arecon-literature-synthesis).
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# Topic Selection for an ARE Review (arecon-topic-selection)
## When to trigger
- You have a candidate field and need to know if it is "ARE-shaped"
- A topic feels either too narrow (a single-question review) or too sprawling (a whole subfield)
- You are deciding between ARE and a sibling outlet (JEL, JEP, a Handbook chapter, a field journal's review section)
- The literature is young/fast-moving and you suspect it is not yet ready for an annual-volume review
## What ARE is for
ARE is the **Annual Reviews** economics survey series: a yearly volume of **invited, authoritative review articles** that are **accessible to economists outside the subfield**, not only to its specialists. The reader is a competent economist who wants to enter, teach, or locate the open questions of a field they do not currently work in. That reader profile — and the annual-volume cadence — sets the fit bar.
## The four ARE-fit tests