From jeea-skills
Positions a JEEA manuscript's contribution relative to the frontier when claims are fuzzy, oversold, or undersold. Stakes marginal contribution for a general-interest readership.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/jeea-skills:jeea-literature-positioningThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- The "we are the first to…" claim is fragile or unverifiable
JEEA is a general-interest journal, so positioning must convince a broad reader — not just subfield specialists — that the marginal contribution is real and consequential. Two failure modes are fatal here: (1) the contribution is genuine but framed for insiders, so a general-interest co-editor cannot see it; (2) the contribution is overstated relative to a close paper a referee will instantly recall. Position against the frontier, name the closest 2–3 papers explicitly, and state in one sentence what your paper establishes that none of them does.
Because JEEA is field-agnostic, the kind of frontier you position against differs by paper type, and a general-interest co-editor expects you to engage the right one:
jeea-theory-model).jeea-identification).In every case the general-interest test is the same: a reader outside the subfield should grasp why the delta matters without already knowing the literature.
A draft on minimum wages claims to be "the first causal estimate of employment effects." A referee instantly recalls a dozen close papers. The JEEA-grade revision names the three closest recent estimates, concedes what they established (small disemployment effects in their settings), and states the genuine delta in one sentence: "Relative to [X, Y, Z], we are the first to separate the wage-floor effect from the simultaneous benefit-schedule change, using a reform that moved only the floor." The travel test follows: the result tells any policymaker that bundled reforms have been misattributing effects. The contribution is now defensible against the very referees who know the literature best.
【Frontier papers】[closest 2–3, cited]
【Delta】"Relative to [X], we are the first to show that ___"
【Novelty type】question / identification / theory
【Travel test】why it matters to a general reader
【Scope limit】what we do NOT claim
【Next step】jeea-identification or jeea-theory-model
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jeea-skillsSharpens the contribution-vs-frontier claim for EER manuscripts when the novelty gap is fuzzy, oversold, or under-cited. Helps name the closest papers and state a checkable marginal contribution.
Positions a QJE manuscript's contribution against the frontier: what it builds on, overturns, and why it belongs in a general-interest journal. Use when the contribution-relative-to-literature is fuzzy.
Positions the marginal contribution of an AEJ: Applied manuscript precisely against prior applied-micro work. Use when a contribution is fuzzy, undersold, or risks reading as a replication.