From ectj-skills
Structures literature positioning for Econometrics Journal papers: separates frontier vs applied citations, compresses related work under the 20-page limit, and ties theory references to assumptions.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/ectj-skills:ectj-literature-positioningThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Use this to make the novelty legible to econometricians and applied users. At EctJ,
Use this to make the novelty legible to econometricians and applied users. At EctJ, positioning is differentiation, not a survey: the journal rewards a leading-case, path-breaking contribution under a hard limit of about 20 pages including the printed appendix, so a sprawling related-work section is both off-fit and a budget leak. Place the paper at a precise seam in the methodological frontier and show that seam matters in applications.
Use a two-layer related-work structure:
Avoid a broad "methods survey" paragraph. EctJ's page discipline means every citation should either define the incumbent method or prove why the leading case matters.
Place each citation where it changes the reader's belief:
If a citation cannot be assigned to one of those jobs, move it to a short related-work paragraph or cut it. This keeps EctJ positioning sharp enough to survive the page constraint while still showing command of the econometric frontier.
The journal sits in the close intellectual orbit of the UK econometrics community, including cemmap and its working-paper series, so the relevant frontier often lives in recent working papers rather than published volumes. Before fixing the delta:
Vignette with illustrative content: a paper proposing inference for synthetic-control estimates with several treated units might write the frontier layer as: "Paper A gives conformal inference for one treated unit; Paper B gives asymptotics as both panel dimensions grow; we give a permutation-based test valid with three to ten treated units and short panels, the range covering most published applications." One sentence, three named deltas, an applied range — that is the positioning density the compact EctJ format rewards. If the delta needs a paragraph of caveats, the seam is wrong, not the writing.
[Nearest literatures] <econometrics/statistics/ML/application>
[Closest 3 papers] <paper -> difference>
[Leading-case contrast] <why this is not a routine extension>
[Applied-value bridge] <where users benefit>
[Missing citations] <must add before submission>
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin ectj-skillsPositions Journal of Econometrics manuscripts precisely against nearest estimators, tests, and asymptotic results to clarify methodological novelty for referees.
Positions an Econometrica theory/methods result precisely within its lineage, writing related-work paragraphs that pre-empt formal comparison questions from referees and editors.
Writes or repairs the introduction and related-work framing for an Economic Journal manuscript, situating the contribution for a broad economics readership with author-date citations.