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Positions interdisciplinary GEC manuscripts across social science, governance, and domain literatures. Shapes framing and citation strategy for environmental-change journals.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/gec-skills:gec-literature-positioningThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
GEC is **interdisciplinary**. A submission that engages only one literature (only climate science, or
GEC is interdisciplinary. A submission that engages only one literature (only climate science, or only one governance debate) reads as off-fit. This skill helps you locate the paper at the intersection of the literatures GEC readers expect and define the gap your contribution fills.
gec-conceptual-framework: the
literature gap is what the framework is built to close.| If your home base is… | Reach the rest of GEC's readership by… |
|---|---|
| A biophysical domain | foregrounding the social drivers/consequences and the governance question |
| Governance / policy | grounding the claim in the specific environmental change and its scale |
| Economics | connecting valuation/incentives to institutions, equity, and behavior |
| Qualitative case study | drawing the transferable mechanism, not just the local narrative |
Because GEC sits at the intersection of environmental social science, governance, and a domain literature, the fastest desk-reject is a paper that engages only one of them. These are the framing objections and their fixes.
| Objection | What it signals | The GEC fix |
|---|---|---|
| "Misses a key literature" | One side of the intersection ignored | Add the missing human-dimensions or domain body and show where it meets your question |
| "Too disciplinary / off-fit" | Reads as a home-subfield paper | Reframe so the contribution is legible to a governance, vulnerability, or transitions reader |
| "Gap is mere absence" | "Not studied in country X" with no stake | Recast as: the dominant framing cannot explain Y, and here is the framework or test that does |
| "Provincial citation base" | Only own group / one region cited | Engage the international, comparative, and policy literatures GEC draws on |
| "Disconnected from the eventual claim" | Review unrelated to framework or policy | Make the gap the exact thing the framework is built to close |
A land-use change paper is first framed as "filling a gap in remote-sensing estimates of deforestation in one basin."
【Literatures engaged】domain + human-dimensions (name them)
【Intersection】where they meet on this question
【Gap as contribution】the framing your paper changes or the test it settles
【Cross-community cites】beyond home subfield / region? [Y/N]
【Next】gec-conceptual-framework
../../resources/external_tools.md — data sources and reference managers../../resources/official-source-map.md — GEC scope and interdisciplinary remitnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin gec-skillsStructures a Global Change Biology manuscript's literature positioning to read as a global-change advance rather than a local report. Guides framing of driver-response gaps, cross-system generality, and synthesis engagement.
Evaluates whether an environmental-change project fits Global Environmental Change (GEC) journal's focus on human and policy dimensions, and helps frame the research question accordingly.
Guides positioning a manuscript in the geographic literature for Annals of the AAG, engaging area-specific debates and cross-cutting geographic concerns to frame the contribution's gap and conversation.