jar-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of Accounting Research (JAR) manuscript within the accounting literature — stating the conversation you join, the marginal contribution over prior archival/disclosure/audit work, and why JAR (not TAR/JAE/RAST/CAR) is the home. Positions the paper; it does not build the mechanism (jar-theory-development) or articulate the discussion-section contribution (jar-contribution-framing).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jar-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 (jar-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The intro reads as gap-spotting ("no one has studied X") - A referee says "this is incremental over [prior JAR/JAE paper]" - You cannot name the specific accounting conversation you are joining - You are unsure whether JAR or a sister accounting journal is the right home ## Position against the accounting conversation, not a generic gap JAR referees are accounting economists who know the capital-markets, disclosure, audit, tax, and standard-setting literatures intimately. A strong front end names the **specific conversation** — e.g., the value-relevance/earnings-informativeness stream descending from Ball-Brown, the voluntary-disclosure literature, the cost-of-capital/information-environment literature, the audit-quality literature, the recognition-vs.-disclosure debate — and states precisely what is **open** in it. "Gap because unstudied" is not enough; the open question must matter economically. ## State the marginal contribution sharply - **Relative to the closest papers.** Identify the two or three nearest prior studies (often in JAR/JAE/TAR/RAST) and say what they got right and what they left unresolved
- When to trigger
- Position against the accounting conversation, not a generic gap
- State the marginal contribution sharply
- Get the venue right
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Before/after: the positioning paragraph
- Referee expectation checklist (accounting-economist reader)
- Output format
- Resources
What does the jar-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Journal of Accounting Research (JAR) manuscript within the accounting literature — stating the conversation you join, the marginal contribution over prior archival/disclosure/audit work, and why JAR (not TAR/JAE/RAST/CAR) is the home. Positions the paper; it does not build the mechanism (jar-theory-development) or articulate the discussion-section contribution (jar-contribution-framing).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jar-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.