fcr-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Field Crops Research (FCR) manuscript against the agronomy and crop-science literature so it reads as a general contribution to field-crop science, not a local report. FCR requires new scientific insight of general relevance and rejects corroborative or merely descriptive work, so the literature must establish the gap and the agronomic stakes. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill fcr-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 (fcr-literature-positioning) FCR will not consider findings that are **corroborative, descriptive, or of only local significance**. Positioning is therefore where you prove the work is **new and general**. The goal is to place the paper where an agronomist or crop scientist anywhere can see the gap, the mechanism, and the advance. ## When to trigger - Drafting or revising the introduction and the "objectives / contribution" paragraph - A reviewer said the work is "already known," "confirmatory," or "only locally relevant" - Your local results are solid but the paper doesn't connect to the broader field-crop literature - You need to distinguish the contribution from the closest prior agronomy papers ## How FCR wants the literature engaged 1. **Build to a sharp objective.** The introduction should be a **brief, unbiased, up-to-date** review that flows to clear objectives or hypotheses — not a citation pile. 2. **Name the gap in general terms.** Not "this has not been done in my region" — say what biophysical process, management response, or yield-gap question is **unresolved, contested, or mismeasured** across environments, and why resolving it matters for fi
- When to trigger
- How FCR wants the literature engaged
- Cross-topic engagement (a distinctive FCR demand)
- Local-to-general conversion table
- Worked positioning vignette (illustrative)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the fcr-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Field Crops Research (FCR) manuscript against the agronomy and crop-science literature so it reads as a general contribution to field-crop science, not a local report. FCR requires new scientific insight of general relevance and rejects corroborative or merely descriptive work, so the literature must establish the gap and the agronomic stakes. 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 fcr-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.