revacc-literature-positioning
Use when the contribution relative to the accounting frontier and the sibling journals is fuzzy for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — joining the right disclosure/earnings/valuation conversation and stating the marginal contribution. Positions the paper; it does not sharpen the one-sentence claim (revacc-contribution-framing) or build the mechanism (revacc-theory-development).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill revacc-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 (revacc-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The intro reads as gap-spotting ("no one has studied X") rather than joining a conversation - You cannot name the three or four papers your result directly speaks to or overturns - A referee asks "what do we learn beyond [prior paper]?" or "how is this not [classic result]?" - The paper straddles disclosure, earnings, and valuation literatures without committing to one - You are unsure whether the natural cite set is the RAST/analytical-accounting frontier or the empirical-archival frontier ## Position into a conversation, not a gap RAST referees punish gap-spotting. The job is to identify the **specific accounting conversation** your paper joins, name the two or three works that define its current frontier, and state the **marginal move** — a new friction, a cleaner setting, a sharper construct, a model that rationalizes a puzzle, or a boundary the prior work did not reach. Because RAST runs both archival and analytical lanes, your positioning must place you on the right frontier and, where relevant, **bridge the two**: an empirical paper that tests a disclosure-theory prediction, or a model that explain
- When to trigger
- Position into a conversation, not a gap
- Stake the contribution against the siblings
- Write the positioning paragraph
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the revacc-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when the contribution relative to the accounting frontier and the sibling journals is fuzzy for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — joining the right disclosure/earnings/valuation conversation and stating the marginal contribution. Positions the paper; it does not sharpen the one-sentence claim (revacc-contribution-framing) or build the mechanism (revacc-theory-development).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill revacc-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.