ijoc-literature-positioning
Use when staking the computational/methodological contribution of an INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC) manuscript against OR/MS and CS prior art. Positions the advance relative to the right baselines and the right frontier; it does not invent citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ijoc-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 (ijoc-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - Reviewers say "the contribution over existing methods is unclear" or "this is incremental" - Your related-work section cites application papers but not the **algorithmic/computational** prior art you actually compete with - You straddle OR and CS literatures and are unsure which frontier you are advancing - A referee names a recent method you did not compare against, and you must decide whether it is the relevant baseline ## Positioning IJOC papers — two frontiers, one claim An IJOC paper usually advances against **two literatures at once**: the OR/MS literature that owns the *problem* and the computing literature that owns the *method*. Your positioning must make clear which frontier you push and by how much, in computational terms. The decisive move is to identify the **state-of-the-art method you must beat or match**, cite it precisely, and commit to it as an experimental baseline. Vague positioning ("little work exists") reads as not having read the field and is a fast path to desk rejection by an Area Editor who knows it well. | Your claim type | The prior art you must engage | The baseline this implie
- When to trigger
- Positioning IJOC papers — two frontiers, one claim
- Engaging recent work fairly
- Sibling-journal framing in the related work
- Using the IJOC corpus and deposit as evidence
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ijoc-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when staking the computational/methodological contribution of an INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC) manuscript against OR/MS and CS prior art. Positions the advance relative to the right baselines and the right frontier; it does not invent citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ijoc-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.