jcr-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) manuscript — joining a live consumer-research conversation across disciplines, problematizing rather than gap-spotting, and separating the paper from JCP, JMR, JM, and disciplinary psychology/sociology outlets.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jcr-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 (jcr-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The introduction reads as "no one has studied X" (gap-spotting) - You cite within one field but JCR's audience spans psychology, anthropology, sociology, and economics - A reviewer says "I don't see the conversation you're joining" or "this fits JCP/JMR better" - You need to show why the work belongs in JCR specifically ## Join a conversation, do not spot a gap JCR's audience is **multi-disciplinary** by design — the journal is governed by a Policy Board of ~11 sponsoring professional societies, and readers come from psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, marketing, statistics, and communication. Effective positioning **problematizes**: it surfaces an assumption the existing consumer-research conversation takes for granted and shows why questioning it matters. "X has not been studied" is not a contribution; "the field assumes X, but consumption behaves otherwise, which forces us to rethink Y" is. Because JCR's overriding criterion is **advancing understanding of consumer behavior or the conduct of consumer research**, the front end must make the focal conversation visible and locate the paper inside
- When to trigger
- Join a conversation, do not spot a gap
- Position across disciplines, not just within one
- Separate JCR from neighboring venues
- Self-citation under double-anonymized review
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jcr-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) manuscript — joining a live consumer-research conversation across disciplines, problematizing rather than gap-spotting, and separating the paper from JCP, JMR, JM, and disciplinary psychology/sociology outlets.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jcr-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.