aeja-literature-positioning
Use when the marginal contribution of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript is fuzzy or undersold and must be staked precisely against prior applied-micro work. Positions the contribution; it does not fix the identification (aeja-identification) or the prose (aeja-writing-style).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-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 (aeja-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - A referee or co-author asks "what is new here relative to [closely related paper]?" - The introduction cites a wall of references but never states the marginal addition - You are unsure whether your contribution is an *answer*, a *design*, a *setting*, or a *measurement* - The paper risks reading as a replication or a marginal extension of an existing AEJ: Applied / AER paper ## The AEJ: Applied contribution bar At AEJ: Applied the contribution is judged as: **a credibly identified answer to a question the applied-micro community has not yet settled**, positioned against the *closest* prior work — not the whole field. Editors and referees reward a contribution that is **specific, honest, and load-bearing**. Name your contribution type, then position only against the papers that threaten it. | Contribution type | What "new" must mean | Positioning move | |-------------------|----------------------|------------------| | New **answer** | a magnitude prior work did not credibly estimate | show why prior designs failed to identify it | | New **design / source of variation** | a cleaner identification of a known
- When to trigger
- The AEJ: Applied contribution bar
- Positioning craft
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Referee pushback mapped to the positioning fix
- Output format
What does the aeja-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when the marginal contribution of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript is fuzzy or undersold and must be staked precisely against prior applied-micro work. Positions the contribution; it does not fix the identification (aeja-identification) or the prose (aeja-writing-style).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-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.