worlddev-literature-positioning
Use when staking a World Development (WD) manuscript's contribution across the multidisciplinary development literature. Sharpens the gap and the claim; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill worlddev-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 (worlddev-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The intro cites only one disciplinary literature (e.g. only development economics) for a problem that spans several - A referee asks "what do we learn that we did not already know?" and the answer is thin - The contribution is framed as "first study of X in country Y" with no conceptual payoff - The paper sits between economics and another field and risks reading as derivative to both - The cited frontier is a top-5 economics literature, but WD's actual conversation is broader and more applied ## Positioning for a multidisciplinary readership WD readers come from economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, geography, public health, and practice. Positioning that satisfies only one of these communities reads as parochial to the rest. The strongest WD intros do three things: 1. **Name the development conversation, not just the technique literature.** "We contribute to the literature on community-driven development and local accountability" lands; "we contribute to the staggered-DID literature" does not — that is a JDE move. The method is a tool; the contribution is to a development debate. 2. *
- When to trigger
- Positioning for a multidisciplinary readership
- A contribution-type ladder (pick the rung you actually occupy)
- Handling the qualitative and mixed-methods case
- A worked positioning (illustrative)
- Engaging the grey literature
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the worlddev-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when staking a World Development (WD) manuscript's contribution across the multidisciplinary development literature. Sharpens the gap and the claim; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill worlddev-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.