jmf-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a family-science contribution. JMF readers span sociology, psychology, demography, and family studies, so the paper must engage the family literatures they expect across disciplines. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the literature review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jmf-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 (jmf-literature-positioning) JMF is interdisciplinary, so a paper that engages only one discipline's family literature reads as under-positioned. The goal is to place the work where a **family-science** audience — demographers, family sociologists, relationship and developmental psychologists — can see the gap and the move. ## When to trigger - Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph - A reviewer said you "missed obvious family-science work" or "don't engage the debate" - Your home-discipline literature is solid but the paper doesn't connect across family science - You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior family studies ## How JMF wants the literature engaged 1. **Engage the family-science conversation, not a citation pile.** Identify the live question in the field your paper speaks to (e.g., does cohabitation function like marriage; how family structure shapes child outcomes; selection vs. causation in union effects). 2. **Cross disciplines deliberately.** A demographic paper on divorce should engage the psychological literature on relationship quality where relevant, and vice versa. JMF readers expect
- When to trigger
- How JMF wants the literature engaged
- Cross-discipline engagement (a distinctive JMF demand)
- Anti-patterns
- Positioning pass for Journal of Marriage and Family
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jmf-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a family-science contribution. JMF readers span sociology, psychology, demography, and family studies, so the paper must engage the family literatures they expect across disciplines. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the literature review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jmf-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.