demog-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Demography (PAA / Duke University Press) manuscript against the population-science literature so it reads as a contribution of general interest to demographers. Demography readers span fertility, mortality, migration, family, and health, so the paper must engage the demographic literatures they expect. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill demog-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 (demog-literature-positioning) Demography editors screen for whether a paper is "**of general interest to demographers**." A paper that engages only a narrow applied literature — and not the demographic conversation it belongs to — reads as off-fit and risks desk rejection. The goal is to place the paper where **population scientists across components** can see the gap and the move. ## When to trigger - Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph - A reviewer said you "missed the demographic literature" or "this is just an applied paper" - Your applied literature is solid but the paper doesn't connect to population science - You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior demographic work ## How Demography wants the literature engaged 1. **Engage the demographic conversation, not a pile of citations.** Identify the open question in population science your paper speaks to — a contested trend, an unexplained gap, a measurement dispute, a mechanism debate. 2. **Two audiences at once.** Satisfy specialists in your component (you know the frontier) *and* general demographers (why it matters for population change). A mo
- When to trigger
- How Demography wants the literature engaged
- Cross-component engagement (a distinctive Demography demand)
- Anti-patterns
- Positioning pass for Demography
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the demog-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Demography (PAA / Duke University Press) manuscript against the population-science literature so it reads as a contribution of general interest to demographers. Demography readers span fertility, mortality, migration, family, and health, so the paper must engage the demographic literatures they expect. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill demog-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.