car-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript within the accounting literature — identifying the conversation it joins, distinguishing it from closely related accounting/finance/economics work, and disclosing overlap with the authors' own related papers as CAR's author declaration requires.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill car-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 (car-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The intro reads as gap-spotting ("no paper has examined…") rather than joining a debate - A reviewer says "how is this different from [closely related accounting paper]?" - The contribution overlaps with the authors' own concurrent work and must be disclosed - The paper sits near the accounting/finance/economics border and the accounting conversation is unclear ## Join an accounting conversation, not a generic one CAR papers earn their place by advancing a live **accounting** conversation — for example, on disclosure and information asymmetry, earnings quality and the properties of accounting numbers, auditor judgment and audit quality, the real effects of reporting, tax avoidance and incentives, or governance and accounting information. Identify the two or three streams your paper speaks to and the specific finding or assumption you confirm, qualify, extend, or overturn. Because CAR is method-agnostic, position against the *substance* of the prior work, not its method: an experiment can sharpen the mechanism behind an archival association, and an analytical model can rationalize a documented empirical regul
- When to trigger
- Join an accounting conversation, not a generic one
- Distinguish from the nearest neighbors
- Disclose overlap with your own work (CAR-specific)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Positioning pass for Contemporary Accounting Research
- Output format
What does the car-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript within the accounting literature — identifying the conversation it joins, distinguishing it from closely related accounting/finance/economics work, and disclosing overlap with the authors' own related papers as CAR's author declaration requires.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill car-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.