gcb-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Global Change Biology (GCB) manuscript in the literature so it reads as a global-change advance, not a local report. GCB readers span ecology, biogeochemistry, and Earth-system science, so the paper must engage the cross-system literatures it speaks to. Structures positioning; it does not fabricate citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill gcb-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 (gcb-literature-positioning) GCB is read across **ecology, biogeochemistry, ecosystem science, and Earth-system / climate-impacts** communities. A submission must show it knows the **global-change** literature on its driver and response — not just the narrow subfield where the data were collected. This skill positions the contribution so reviewers see the gap and the advance. ## When to trigger - Writing the introduction's "what is known / what is missing" framing - Reconciling a finding with prior global-change studies (and apparent contradictions) - Building a Research Review's coverage and argument - A reviewer said the framing is "too local" or "misses key literature" ## How to position for GCB 1. **Anchor on the driver-response literature**, not only the local system. Cite the global-change studies a GCB reader expects (warming experiments, FACE/eCO2, N-deposition, range shifts, flux syntheses), then show your gap. 2. **Speak across systems.** A terrestrial result should acknowledge whether the mechanism is expected to hold in aquatic/marine systems and vice versa; GCB rewards generality. 3. **Engage the synthesis literature.** Meta-analyses and model-
- When to trigger
- How to position for GCB
- Diagnosing the framing gap
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Referee pushback patterns and the fix
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the gcb-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Global Change Biology (GCB) manuscript in the literature so it reads as a global-change advance, not a local report. GCB readers span ecology, biogeochemistry, and Earth-system science, so the paper must engage the cross-system literatures it speaks to. Structures positioning; it does not fabricate citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill gcb-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.