Topic Selection — Is This an ARPsych Topic? (arpsych-topic-selection)

When to trigger

A user wants to write "a review" and needs to know whether ARPsych is the right home
An invitation is possible but the angle on the topic is undecided
The candidate topic feels either too narrow (one lab's program) or too vast (all of memory)
You must distinguish an ARPsych-scale survey from a Psychological Bulletin meta-analysis

ARPsych commissions reviews that the whole field will read for a decade. A topic earns a slot only if it clears all three:

Gate	Question	Fails when
Maturity	Is there enough accumulated, settled-enough work to synthesize?	The area is 3 papers old and moving weekly — premature; the review would date in a year
Importance	Will cognitive/social/developmental/clinical/neuro/I-O readers and adjacent fields care?	The topic matters only to one specialty's insiders
Synthesis-readiness	Is the literature fragmented in a way a framework could resolve?	The field is already tidy (a textbook chapter covers it) — nothing to add