eursr-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to a comparative, theory-driven quantitative debate rather than a national note. Stakes the contribution in a European sociological debate and names the closest prior estimates; it does not write the literature review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eursr-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 (eursr-literature-positioning) An ESR paper must convince a comparative-minded quantitative audience that the contribution moves a **live European debate** — about stratification, education, labor markets, family, migration, or attitudes — and not just add a coefficient for one more country. Positioning places the paper in that debate and shows precisely what it changes. ## When to trigger - Drafting or revising the introduction and the contribution statement - A reviewer said you "missed the European literature" or "don't engage the comparative debate" - Your national citations are solid but the paper doesn't connect to the cross-national frontier - Distinguishing your contribution from the closest prior estimates ## How ESR wants the literature engaged 1. **Frame a debate, not a citation list.** Identify the live theoretical disagreement (e.g., relative vs. absolute mobility, primary vs. secondary effects in education, assimilation vs. boundary accounts of integration) and cite the works that *define* it. 2. **Engage the comparative frontier.** ESR readers know the cross-national literature; cite the harmonized-data studies (ESS / EU-SILC / SOEP / compara
- When to trigger
- How ESR wants the literature engaged
- Cross-national engagement (an ESR demand)
- Desk-reject and early-rejection patterns at ESR
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Referee pushback → ESR-specific fix
- Calibration anchors
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the eursr-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to a comparative, theory-driven quantitative debate rather than a national note. Stakes the contribution in a European sociological debate and names the closest prior estimates; it does not write the literature review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eursr-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.