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Eursr Literature Positioning

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when positioning a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to a comparative, theory-driven quantitative debate…

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Install Eursr Literature Positioning

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eursr-literature-positioning -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills eursr-literature-positioning --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/European-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/eursr-literature-positioning .claude/skills/eursr-literature-positioning && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
eursr-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
643 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when positioning a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to a comparative, theory-driven quantitative debate…

  • Works in 5 steps: Frame a debate, not a citation list.… → Engage the comparative frontier. ESR… → Name the gap precisely. Not "little is… → …
  • Positioning a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to a comparative
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How ESR wants the literature…, Cross-national engagement (an… and Desk-reject and…, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Eursr Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to a comparative, theory-driven quantitative debate rather than a national note. Stakes the contribution in a European sociological debate and names the closest prior estimates; it does not write the literature review.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Marketing & SEO, covering Positioning and messaging and Literature review. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. ｜ 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Positioning a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to a comparative
  • Theory-driven quantitative debate rather than a national note

Example prompts

  • “/eursr-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Frame a debate, not a citation list. Identify the live theoretical disagreement (e.g., relative
  2. Engage the comparative frontier. ESR readers know the cross-national literature; cite the
  3. Name the gap precisely. Not "little is known" — say what is contested, under-theorized, or
  4. Position the contribution as a move. "Prior comparative work explains outcome Y via mechanism M;
  5. Engage the strongest rival account and preview how the design adjudicates it (hand to

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Eursr Literature Positioning loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 92 tokens; SKILL.md has 643 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~92
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 643 words, ~1,555 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/eursr-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
eursr-literature-positioning
description
Use when positioning a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to a comparative, theory-driven quantitative debate rather than a national note. Stakes the contribution in a European sociological debate and names the closest prior estimates; it does not write the literature review.

Literature Positioning (eursr-literature-positioning)

An ESR paper must convince a comparative-minded quantitative audience that the contribution moves a live European debate — about stratification, education, labor markets, family, migration, or attitudes — and not just add a coefficient for one more country. Positioning places the paper in that debate and shows precisely what it changes.

When to trigger

  • Drafting or revising the introduction and the contribution statement
  • A reviewer said you "missed the European literature" or "don't engage the comparative debate"
  • Your national citations are solid but the paper doesn't connect to the cross-national frontier
  • Distinguishing your contribution from the closest prior estimates

How ESR wants the literature engaged

  1. Frame a debate, not a citation list. Identify the live theoretical disagreement (e.g., relative vs. absolute mobility, primary vs. secondary effects in education, assimilation vs. boundary accounts of integration) and cite the works that define it.
  2. Engage the comparative frontier. ESR readers know the cross-national literature; cite the harmonized-data studies (ESS / EU-SILC / SOEP / comparative mobility tables) your estimate speaks to, not only the national-language work.
  3. Name the gap precisely. Not "little is known" — say what is contested, under-theorized, or confounded across contexts, and why resolving it advances the explanation.
  4. Position the contribution as a move. "Prior comparative work explains outcome Y via mechanism M; we show M is conditional on institution I / better understood as M′."
  5. Engage the strongest rival account and preview how the design adjudicates it (hand to eursr-research-design).

Cross-national engagement (an ESR demand)

If your paper is…also engage…
a single-country panelthe comparative literature on the same mechanism across regimes
a cross-national snapshotthe over-time / cohort studies that bear on the trend
a methods-forward paperthe substantive comparative debate the estimate settles
a register/administrative studythe survey-based comparative findings it confirms or revises

Desk-reject and early-rejection patterns at ESR

ESR editors screen for comparative/theoretical fit before sending a paper out; as ECSR's flagship they decline work that reads as a national note no matter how clean. These positioning failures most often draw an early decline.

PatternWhy it stalls at ESRThe positioning fix
"First study of X in country Y"descriptive, single-countryframe the comparative mechanism the case bears on
Citations from one national literaturereads as a local paperadd the cross-national debate it speaks to
Gap stated as "little is known"no live disagreementname what is contested across contexts
Closest comparative estimate uncitedreads as evasionengage the nearest comparative study; state the difference
Show full SKILL.md (230 more words)Show less

Worked micro-example (illustrative)

A scholar studies how tracking shapes the social gradient in test scores using PISA-linked panel data.

Weak frame: "First analysis of tracking and the SES gap in [country]" → national note, likely declined
Strong frame: enters the primary-vs-secondary-effects debate and the comparative tracking literature;
  shows early tracking amplifies secondary effects (choice given performance), not primary effects
Move: "Comparative work attributes the gap mainly to performance differences; we show institutional
  tracking shifts the balance toward choice-based (secondary) effects where tracking is early"
  → a portable, contestable claim

The same data go from a national gap description to a contribution the comparative-stratification field can use.

Referee pushback → ESR-specific fix

  • "You missed key work." → The miss is usually the comparative frontier; add the cross-national anchor, not more national-language citations.
  • "I don't see what this changes." → Restate the contribution as a move against a named prior estimate ("M is conditional / better understood as M′").
  • "This belongs in a national journal." → Elevate the comparative stakes so the cross-national payoff is visible before the country details.

Calibration anchors

  • The comparative frontier is the reference group. ESR positions a paper against harmonized-data, cross-national work — engaging only one national literature reads as off-target.
  • Debate over inventory. A sharply framed disagreement that travels across European contexts beats an exhaustive but inert survey.
  • The contribution is a verb. State what the paper does to the field's explanation, hedged when the move is a refinement rather than an overturning.

Anti-patterns

  • A "literature dump" with no organizing debate
  • Engaging only one national literature (a common ESR rejection reason)
  • Strawmanning prior work or hiding the closest comparative estimate
  • Self-citation worded so it breaks anonymity (ESR allows self-citation, not self-identification — see eursr-submission)
  • "First to study" claims for an incremental, single-country contribution

Output format

【Debate】the live comparative sociological disagreement / open question
【Key works】the 3-6 that define it (incl. cross-national frontier)
【Gap】what is contested / under-theorized / confounded across contexts
【Move】how this paper changes the debate
【Strongest rival】and how the design will adjudicate it
【Next】eursr-theory-building

Supplementary resources

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in European-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/eursr-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Eursr Literature Positioning

What does Eursr Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to a comparative, theory-driven quantitative debate…. Eursr Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to a comparative, theory-driven quantitative debate rather than a national note.

When should I use Eursr Literature Positioning?

Eursr Literature Positioning fits situations like: positioning a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to a comparative; theory-driven quantitative debate rather than a national note.

How do I install Eursr Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eursr-literature-positioning -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (European-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/eursr-literature-positioning in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/eursr-literature-positioning in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Eursr Literature Positioning in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eursr-literature-positioning -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (European-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/eursr-literature-positioning in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/eursr-literature-positioning in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Eursr Literature Positioning in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eursr-literature-positioning -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/eursr-literature-positioning, .gemini/skills/eursr-literature-positioning, .github/skills/eursr-literature-positioning and .opencode/skills/eursr-literature-positioning in your project.

What does Eursr Literature Positioning need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Eursr Literature Positioning is instructions for the agent only.

Does Eursr Literature Positioning access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Eursr Literature Positioning safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Eursr Literature Positioning use?

Eursr Literature Positioning is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Eursr Literature Positioning use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Eursr Literature Positioning?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.