From population-and-development-review-skills
Positions PDR manuscripts against population-and-development literature to frame contributions for a broad interdisciplinary audience.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/population-and-development-review-skills:popdevr-literature-positioningThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
PDR editors screen for whether a paper speaks to the **relationships between population and social,
PDR editors screen for whether a paper speaks to the relationships between population and social, economic, and environmental change and to policy — and whether it will interest a readership wider than one sub-discipline. A paper that engages only a narrow applied literature, or only formal demography, reads as off-fit. The goal is to place the paper where both population scientists and development/policy scholars can see the gap and the move.
popdevr-research-design).| If your paper is… | also engage… |
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| an estimate of a fertility/mortality/migration trend | the development or policy literature it bears on |
| a population–environment study | the climate/resource and the demographic literatures together |
| a synthetic/conceptual essay | the prior frameworks it revises, across fields |
| a single-country case | the comparative population-and-development theory it speaks to |
| an ageing/structure paper | the economic-growth, labor, or pension literature it informs |
popdevr-submission)Run this as a concrete capability pass. First lock the population process, the development/policy linkage, the data and time scale, the selection/measurement issue, and the uncertainty; then test whether the manuscript addresses PDR's broad audience who inspect both the population evidence and its development meaning.
claim / evidence / blocker / next edit rows so the next pass can patch
the manuscript directly.resources/official-source-map.md for
volatile rules and name the one unresolved fact that could change the recommendation.【Conversation】the open population question + the development/policy debate it touches
【Key works】the 3-6 that define them (incl. prior frameworks if a synthetic essay)
【Gap】what is mismeasured / unexplained / contested across both
【Move】how this paper changes the population-and-development record or framing
【Strongest rival】and how the design will adjudicate it
【Next】popdevr-theory-building
../../resources/external_tools.md — population + development data sources to anchor the literature../../resources/official-source-map.md — PDR aims, scope, and broad-interest standardnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin population-and-development-review-skillsPositions a Demography manuscript against the population-science literature to frame it as a contribution of general interest to demographers across fertility, mortality, migration, family, and health.
Presssure-tests whether a project fits Population and Development Review's scope and helps select the appropriate article type (Research Article, Notes & Commentary, Data & Perspectives).
Positions a World Development manuscript's contribution across the multidisciplinary development literature by sharpening the gap and claim. Helps when an intro cites only one discipline or when a contribution is framed as a first study with no conceptual payoff.