epsl-literature-positioning
Use when positioning an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript against prior work. EPSL's readership spans geochemistry, geophysics, geodynamics, geochronology and planetary science, so the knowledge gap must be framed across sub-fields and against the frontier, not inside one method community. It frames the gap and citations; it does not fabricate references.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-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 (epsl-literature-positioning) An EPSL paper is typically refereed by specialists from *different* sub-fields — a geochemist and a geodynamicist, or a seismologist and a mineral physicist. Positioning that only cites your own method community reads as parochial to the other reviewer, and positioning that ignores what the adjacent community already established reads as naive. This skill builds the cross-disciplinary gap statement that survives both. ## When to trigger - Writing the introduction's "what is known / what is missing" arc - A reviewer wrote "the authors seem unaware of the geophysical (or geochemical) constraints" - Checking whether the claimed gap is already closed in an adjacent literature - Preparing an invited Frontiers Paper that must map an entire frontier ## How to position for EPSL 1. **State the gap as a competing-hypothesis problem.** "Models A and B predict opposite signs for [observable]; existing data cannot distinguish them" beats "few studies have examined region X." 2. **Triangulate across observables.** Show what isotopes, seismology, experiments, and dynamical models each say about the process — and precisely where they disagree.
- When to trigger
- How to position for EPSL
- Which literatures the paired reviewers expect you to engage
- Worked micro-example (illustrative — positioning a water-in-the-mantle paper)
- Referee-pushback patterns and the venue-specific fix
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the epsl-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript against prior work. EPSL's readership spans geochemistry, geophysics, geodynamics, geochronology and planetary science, so the knowledge gap must be framed across sub-fields and against the frontier, not inside one method community. It frames the gap and citations; it does not fabricate references.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-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 984 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.