imfer-literature-positioning
Use when the contribution of an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript relative to the international-macro frontier and the sibling journals is unclear or undersold. Stakes the claim against JIE/JIMF/JMCB and the IMF research stream; it does not select the topic (imfer-topic-selection) or design identification (imfer-identification).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imfer-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 (imfer-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - A referee or coauthor says "I am not sure what is new here relative to [JIE / JIMF paper]" - The paper cites broadly but never states the **one-sentence delta** over the closest prior work - You cannot tell whether the contribution is empirical (new fact), methodological, or policy-design - The framing reads like a JIE or JIMF paper and you must pull it toward IMFER's policy-relevant frontier - You need to place the paper in the **IMF research stream** (WEO/GFSR themes, ARC topics, prior IMFER issues) without name-dropping - A reviewer suspects the result restates a known global-financial-cycle / sudden-stop finding under a new label ## How IMFER weighs a contribution IMFER referees ask three things at once: *Is the finding new at the frontier? Is the identification credible? Does it change how a policymaker should think about an international-macro problem?* A paper that is new but policy-mute, or policy-relevant but already known, stalls. Position the contribution on the axis where it is strongest, and be explicit about the **closest two or three papers** — including the sibling-journal ones — so the ref
- When to trigger
- How IMFER weighs a contribution
- The sibling map (know exactly where you sit)
- Positioning craft
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Referee pushback mapped to the positioning fix
- Output format
What does the imfer-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when the contribution of an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript relative to the international-macro frontier and the sibling journals is unclear or undersold. Stakes the claim against JIE/JIMF/JMCB and the IMF research stream; it does not select the topic (imfer-topic-selection) or design identification (imfer-identification).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imfer-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.