From tar-skills
Positions a TAR manuscript inside a live accounting conversation by problematizing tensions in the closest literature, rather than gap-spotting or incremental database extensions.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/tar-skills:tar-literature-positioningThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- Your intro says "no prior study examines X" (gap-spotting) instead of joining a debate
TAR's bar is the significance of the contribution to the accounting literature, so positioning is not a citation dump — it is showing which accounting conversation you advance and how. The strong move is problematization: surface a tension, an unexplained result, or a maintained assumption in the literature that your setting lets you resolve. A new shock, a richer dataset, or a cleaner identification is valuable only insofar as it settles something the field actually disputes.
The closest competing work often sits in JAR, JAE, Contemporary Accounting Research, or Review of
Accounting Studies as much as in TAR. Engage that work directly; do not pretend the conversation is
TAR-only. If the nearest neighbors are all in a finance journal, reconsider whether the accounting
construct is really central (see tar-topic-selection).
【Focal conversation】... (disclosure / audit / tax / real effects / managerial)
【Closest competitors】1... 2... 3... (the must-beat paper: ...)
【Tension / problematization】the literature disputes ... ; this setting resolves ...
【Your position】not a gap — you settle ...
【Cross-venue neighbors engaged】JAR/JAE/CAR/RAST: ...
【Next step】tar-methods, then tar-contribution-framing
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin tar-skillsPositions a JAR manuscript within the accounting literature by naming the specific conversation, stating the marginal contribution over prior work, and justifying the venue.
Positions a CAR manuscript within the accounting literature by identifying the conversation it joins, distinguishing it from related work, and disclosing overlap with the authors' own papers.
Positions a Review of Accounting Studies manuscript within the accounting frontier by naming the conversation, key prior works, and marginal contribution instead of gap-spotting.