popdevr-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript against the population-and-development literature so it reads as a broad-interest contribution. PDR readers span demography, economics, environment, and policy, so the paper must engage both the population-science conversation and the development debate it touches. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill popdevr-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 (popdevr-literature-positioning) PDR editors screen for whether a paper speaks to the **relationships between population and social, economic, and environmental change** and to **policy** — and whether it will interest a readership wider than one sub-discipline. A paper that engages only a narrow applied literature, or only formal demography, reads as off-fit. The goal is to place the paper where **both population scientists and development/policy scholars** can see the gap and the move. ## When to trigger - Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph - A reviewer said you "missed the development literature" or "this is just an applied estimate" - Your population analysis is solid but the paper does not connect to a development or policy debate - You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior population-and-development work ## How PDR wants the literature engaged 1. **Engage two conversations at once.** Identify the open question in **population science** (a contested trend, an unexplained gap, a measurement dispute) *and* the **development/policy** debate it bears on (growth, inequality, gender, climate, ageing
- When to trigger
- How PDR wants the literature engaged
- Cross-field engagement (a distinctive PDR demand)
- Anti-patterns
- Positioning pass for PDR
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the popdevr-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript against the population-and-development literature so it reads as a broad-interest contribution. PDR readers span demography, economics, environment, and policy, so the paper must engage both the population-science conversation and the development debate it touches. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill popdevr-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.