ecj-literature-positioning
Use when writing or repairing the introduction and related-work framing for a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript — situating the contribution for a broad economics readership with author-date citations. Frames positioning and the intro arc; it does not run the empirics or build the model.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecj-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 & Introduction (ecj-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The related-work section reads as an annotated list ("X did A. Y did B.") - The introduction never states crisply what economics learns from this paper - A reader outside your subfield cannot tell which literature the paper contributes to or why they should care - You are unsure whether you have engaged the work the result speaks to across fields, not just your niche ## What EJ wants from positioning EJ introductions are economic arguments aimed at a **broad international readership**, not literature catalogs for a subfield. Because EJ's defining bar is **broad interest plus a substantial contribution**, the intro must make a generalist economist — not only your closest five competitors — finish the first pages knowing: the economic question, why it matters widely, what was already known, the precise gap, and what you do about it. Positioning is judged on whether you placed the paper against the **right** literature *and* explained the stakes in terms a non-specialist grasps. A frequent EJ failure is an intro written **for the subfield**: dense with niche citations and acronyms, with the broad
- When to trigger
- What EJ wants from positioning
- The EJ introduction arc (five moves)
- Positioning checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ecj-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when writing or repairing the introduction and related-work framing for a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript — situating the contribution for a broad economics readership with author-date citations. Frames positioning and the intro arc; it does not run the empirics or build the model.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecj-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.