aaag-literature-positioning
Use when positioning an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript in the literature — engaging geographic scholarship across the relevant area and the cross-cutting debates Annals readers expect. Frames the gap and the conversation; it does not design the study.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aaag-literature-positioning --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Literature Positioning (aaag-literature-positioning) The Annals expects a paper to enter a **geographic conversation**, not merely to cite a domain literature with a few geography references appended. Position the work so its area's readers, and geographers more broadly, recognize the debate it advances. ## When to trigger - Writing or revising the introduction/related-work and framing the gap - A reviewer said "you've missed the geography literature" or "this reads as [other discipline]" - Deciding which conversations to foreground for the declared area's editor and reviewers ## Position in two registers 1. **Within the area.** Engage the live debate your contribution moves — e.g., for Methods, the spatial-dependence / scale / uncertainty literature; for Nature-Society, political ecology / land change / resilience; for Human, the relevant social-theoretic strand; for Physical, the process literature in your subsystem. 2. **Across geography.** Connect to a cross-cutting geographic concern (scale, place, region, space-time, environment-society, spatial data) so a reader outside the subfield sees the stake. ## The "geographic conversation" test Name the **single closest prior accou
- When to trigger
- Position in two registers
- The "geographic conversation" test
- Engage geographic theory, not just topical citations
- Area-aware positioning cues
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the aaag-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript in the literature — engaging geographic scholarship across the relevant area and the cross-cutting debates Annals readers expect. Frames the gap and the conversation; it does not design the study.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aaag-literature-positioning --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.