est-literature-positioning
Use when positioning an Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) manuscript against prior work across environmental chemistry, engineering, toxicology, and policy. ES&T is multidisciplinary, so the paper must engage the right literatures and state the knowledge gap it closes. It frames the gap and citations; it does not fabricate references.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill est-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 (est-literature-positioning) ES&T draws a multidisciplinary readership, and editors decline work that does not engage the relevant literature or that re-derives what is already known. This skill positions the contribution: what is known, what is missing, and why this paper closes the gap for a real environmental problem. ## When to trigger - Writing the introduction or the "knowledge gap" framing - Building a **Critical Review** or **Perspective** that must map a whole field - A reviewer said the work "ignores relevant literature" or "is not novel" - Deciding which adjacent fields (chemistry, engineering, tox, policy) to cite ## How to position for ES&T 1. **State the gap as a process question.** Frame what is unknown about fate, transport, transformation, exposure, toxicity, treatment, or management — not just "few studies have looked." 2. **Engage across sub-fields.** Cite the analytical, mechanistic, engineering, and (where relevant) policy literatures the broad ES&T audience expects, including prior ES&T/ES&T Letters work. 3. **Differentiate, don't dismiss.** Say precisely how your concentrations, matrices, mechanisms, or scale advance beyond the closes
- When to trigger
- How to position for ES&T
- Which literatures a multidisciplinary referee panel expects you to engage
- Referee-pushback patterns and the venue-specific fix
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the est-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning an Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) manuscript against prior work across environmental chemistry, engineering, toxicology, and policy. ES&T is multidisciplinary, so the paper must engage the right literatures and state the knowledge gap it closes. 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 est-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.