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eursr-topic-selection

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Use when deciding whether a sociology project fits the European Sociological Review (ESR) and whether to write a full Article, a Comment/Reply, or a Data Brief. ESR is Europe's flagship quantitative-sociology journal, so the test is a portable mechanism studied with a rigorous comparative or longitudinal quantitative design. Frames the question; it does not collect data.

When to use

• Choosing among possible projects or framings for ESR
• Deciding among a full Article, a Comment/Reply, and a Data Brief
• Pressure-testing fit before investing
• Evaluating if a paper feels single-country, merely descriptive, or atheoretical
• Assessing quantitative core, portable mechanism, and comparative leverage

When not to use

• Collecting data
• Purely theoretical papers
• Purely ethnographic papers
• Smuggling a new study into a Comment
• Using a Data Brief for a full causal argument

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