jegeo-literature-positioning
Use when staking a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript's contribution against both the geographical-economics and human-geography frontiers, and against sibling journals. Sharpens positioning; it does not invent citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jegeo-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 (jegeo-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The contribution sentence is vague ("we add to the agglomeration literature") or speaks to only one of JEG's two communities - Reviewers might say "this is already known" because you cited the NEG literature but not the evolutionary/institutional work, or vice versa - The paper sits between JEG and a sibling (JUE, RSUE, Economic Geography, Regional Studies, JIE) and the boundary is not argued - You are unsure whether the gap you claim is real or just under-cited ## Positioning across two literatures at once JEG referees come from both sides of the bridge, so a one-sided literature review reads as not knowing the field. The contribution must be located against **both** frontiers: - **The geographical-economics frontier:** New Economic Geography (Krugman, Fujita-Krugman-Venables), and the quantitative-spatial-economics turn (Redding, Rossi-Hansberg, Allen-Arkolakis, Donaldson) that made NEG estimable. If your paper is empirical, position against the quantitative-spatial models you are testing, calibrating, or relaxing. - **The proper-economic-geography frontier:** evolutionary economic geography (Boschma, Fr
- When to trigger
- Positioning across two literatures at once
- Building the contribution claim
- Reading lists a JEG referee expects you to know
- Sibling boundary, argued not asserted
- Referee pushback mapped to the positioning fix
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Checklist
- Positioning the method as a contribution
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jegeo-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when staking a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript's contribution against both the geographical-economics and human-geography frontiers, and against sibling journals. Sharpens positioning; it does not invent citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jegeo-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.