finman-literature-positioning
Use when the contribution of a Financial Management (FM) manuscript relative to the published finance frontier is fuzzy, oversold, or indistinguishable from a specialist sibling. Stakes the marginal contribution and the sibling boundary; it does not run analysis or draft the intro prose.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill finman-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 (finman-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - A referee or coauthor says the contribution "isn't clear" or "feels incremental" - The paper could plausibly have been sent to JCF, JFQA, or a top-3 journal and you cannot articulate why FM - The intro cites everything but never says precisely what is *new* relative to the closest two or three papers - You are tempted to claim a top-3-sized contribution that the evidence does not support ## The FM positioning bar FM rewards a **clearly stated, honestly sized** contribution that a *general* finance reader can grasp. Because the journal is broad and explicitly values papers that "provoke and further debate," positioning at FM is less about claiming you beat the frontier on rigor and more about showing your finding **adds a debate-worthy fact, mechanism, or managerial implication** the literature is missing. The two failure modes FM editors see most are (a) **over-claiming** — dressing a solid incremental result as a paradigm shift, which the <10% acceptance bar and experienced AEs catch immediately; and (b) **mis-targeting** — a paper whose contribution is so specialist it belongs in JCF or JFQA, or so fron
- When to trigger
- The FM positioning bar
- Positioning by where the paper sits relative to siblings
- Staking the contribution
- Sizing the claim: match the verb to the evidence
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- The "why FM" paragraph (write it before you submit)
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the finman-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when the contribution of a Financial Management (FM) manuscript relative to the published finance frontier is fuzzy, oversold, or indistinguishable from a specialist sibling. Stakes the marginal contribution and the sibling boundary; it does not run analysis or draft the intro prose.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill finman-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.