Here’s a quite helpful checklist for research articles from the Academy of Sociology.
I guess ‘checklist’ is the wrong way to describe it; it’s more like a list of desiderata for good research articles to be considered before starting to write. I mean who’s going to go through 11 pages before submitting an article?
The points are quite helpful, but they are only starting points — follow the links and do your own research on the topics.
Link: https://osf.io/mw59u/