mgsci-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Management Science (INFORMS) manuscript in its literature — joining the right Department's conversation, citing canonical analytical and empirical work in author-year style, and making the cross-department contribution legible so a Department Editor sees both fit and novelty. It positions; it does not state the contribution sentences (mgsci-contribution-framing).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill mgsci-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 (mgsci-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The intro reads as gap-spotting ("no one has studied X") rather than joining a live conversation - You are unsure which literature (and therefore which Department) you are speaking to - Canonical works in the focal stream are missing — a frequent reviewer and Department Editor check - A reviewer said "this is not positioned" or "you are not engaging the relevant literature" ## Position into a Department's conversation Management Science routes every paper into a **Department** (Accounting; Behavioral Economics and Decision Analysis; Business Strategy; Data Science; Finance; Information Systems; Operations Management; Optimization and Decision Analytics; Revenue Management & Market Analytics; Stochastic Models and Simulation; Marketing/Organizations as applicable). The literature you engage **signals your Department** to the desk-screening editor. Position into the stream whose Department Editor will handle you, and cite the work that editor and their reviewers consider canonical. - **Analytical lane:** engage the modeling lineage — the prior models you generalize, relax, or overturn. State precisely what y
- When to trigger
- Position into a Department's conversation
- Problematization over gap-spotting
- Make the cross-department contribution legible
- Citation mechanics
- Positioning-to-department map
- Worked micro-example (illustrative): positioning a platform-pricing paper
- Referee-pushback patterns and the venue-specific fix
- Calibration anchor
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the mgsci-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Management Science (INFORMS) manuscript in its literature — joining the right Department's conversation, citing canonical analytical and empirical work in author-year style, and making the cross-department contribution legible so a Department Editor sees both fit and novelty. It positions; it does not state the contribution sentences (mgsci-contribution-framing).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill mgsci-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.