jf-literature-positioning
Use when the introduction and related-work sections of a The Journal of Finance (JF) manuscript fail to state a crisp marginal contribution against the finance literature. Positions the paper; it does not survey it.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jf-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 & Contribution (jf-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The related-work section is a chronological list ("X (2015) finds… Y (2018) finds…") - A reader cannot tell in one paragraph what is new relative to the closest papers - The intro cites broadly but never names the 3–5 papers it actually builds on / departs from - A referee is likely to say "this is already in [well-known paper]" ## JF norm: position, do not survey JF introductions are short and lead with the question and finding. The literature is woven into the **contribution paragraph(s)**, not parked in a standalone "Literature Review" chapter. A general-interest AFA reader should leave the introduction knowing the question, the answer, the magnitude, and exactly how it differs from the closest work. ## Engage JF's own canon JF has published much of finance's foundational work; reviewers expect you to engage the right anchors and **attribute to the correct top-3 journal**: - **Sharpe (1964)** CAPM — JF. - **Jensen (1968)** mutual-fund performance — JF. - **Fama & French (1992)**, "The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns" — **JF**. - **Jegadeesh & Titman (1993)**, momentum — **JF**. - **C
- When to trigger
- JF norm: position, do not survey
- Engage JF's own canon
- Contribution-paragraph template
- Contribution-type decision table
- Worked vignette — positioning against the canon
- Referee-pushback patterns and the JF-specific fix
- Calibration anchors
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jf-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when the introduction and related-work sections of a The Journal of Finance (JF) manuscript fail to state a crisp marginal contribution against the finance literature. Positions the paper; it does not survey it.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jf-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.