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car-topic-selection

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Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — testing fit with CAR's deliberately method-agnostic, all-topic-areas accounting scope and picking the research tradition (archival, experimental, analytical, field, qualitative) that the question demands.

When to use

• Choosing a research question for a CAR manuscript
• Sharpening a research question for a CAR manuscript
• Testing fit with CAR's accounting scope
• Picking the research tradition for a question
• Determining if a topic fits CAR versus other outlets
• Scoring fit, novelty, and evidence readiness
• Comparing against neighboring accounting journals

When not to use

• Finance questions dressed in accounting data
• Method-first approaches forcing a tradition
• Gap-spotting without tension or consequence
• Prestige-only targeting when a sibling venue owns the contribution

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