Agent skill

Jegeo Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when staking a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript's contribution against both the geographical-economics and human-geography frontiers, and against sibling…

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Install Jegeo Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jegeo-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/Journal-of-Economic-Geography-Skills/skills/jegeo-literature-positioning .claude/skills/jegeo-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
jegeo-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,057 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when staking a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript's contribution against both the geographical-economics and human-geography frontiers, and against sibling…

  • Staking a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscripts contribution against both the geographical-economics and human-geography frontiers
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Positioning across two…, Building the contribution claim and Reading lists a JEG referee…, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Against sibling journals

What it does

Jegeo Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when staking a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript's contribution against both the geographical-economics and human-geography frontiers, and against sibling journals. Sharpens positioning; it does not invent citations.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.1k 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 Citation management. 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

  • Staking a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscripts contribution against both the geographical-economics and human-geography frontiers
  • Against sibling journals

Example prompts

  • “/jegeo-literature-positioning”

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

Jegeo Literature Positioning loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 66 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,057 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~66
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.1k

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). 1,057 words, ~2,102 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jegeo-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jegeo-literature-positioning
description
Use when staking a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript's contribution against both the geographical-economics and human-geography frontiers, and against sibling journals. Sharpens positioning; it does not invent citations.

Literature Positioning (jegeo-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

  • The contribution sentence is vague ("we add to the agglomeration literature") or speaks to only one of JEG's two communities
  • Reviewers might say "this is already known" because you cited the NEG literature but not the evolutionary/institutional work, or vice versa
  • The paper sits between JEG and a sibling (JUE, RSUE, Economic Geography, Regional Studies, JIE) and the boundary is not argued
  • You are unsure whether the gap you claim is real or just under-cited

Positioning across two literatures at once

JEG referees come from both sides of the bridge, so a one-sided literature review reads as not knowing the field. The contribution must be located against both frontiers:

  • The geographical-economics frontier: New Economic Geography (Krugman, Fujita-Krugman-Venables), and the quantitative-spatial-economics turn (Redding, Rossi-Hansberg, Allen-Arkolakis, Donaldson) that made NEG estimable. If your paper is empirical, position against the quantitative-spatial models you are testing, calibrating, or relaxing.
  • The proper-economic-geography frontier: evolutionary economic geography (Boschma, Frenken — relatedness, branching, regional resilience), institutional and relational geography, global-value-chain / global-production-network theory (Coe, Yeung), and the clusters/knowledge-spillover tradition. If your paper is quantitative, you still owe this literature a real engagement, not a token citation.

The strongest JEG positioning shows the two literatures talking past each other on your question, and the paper as the place they meet.

Building the contribution claim

MoveWeak versionJEG-strong version
State the gap"little work on X""geographical economics measures X but ignores the institutional mechanism EEG theorizes — neither has tested both jointly"
Name the frontiera 2008 surveythe specific recent papers a referee will think of first, from both camps
Position the method"we run a regression""we bring quantitative-spatial identification to a question only handled qualitatively (or vice versa)"
Claim the delta"we add nuance"one sentence naming the new thing we know about space and the economy

Reading lists a JEG referee expects you to know

You do not have to cite all of these, but a referee from each camp will notice if you seem unaware of their canon:

  • Geographical economics: the core-periphery NEG tradition (Krugman; Fujita-Krugman-Venables, The Spatial Economy) and the quantitative-spatial turn that made it estimable (Redding-Rossi-Hansberg on quantitative spatial economics; Allen-Arkolakis on trade and geography; Donaldson-Hornbeck on market access). Position empirical work against the model it tests, relaxes, or calibrates.
  • Proper economic geography: evolutionary EG (Boschma-Frenken on relatedness, branching, regional resilience), institutional and relational geography, and the GPN/GVC framework (Coe-Yeung). A quantitative paper still owes this side a real engagement, not a single citation.

The tell of a one-community paper is a bibliography drawn almost entirely from one of these two lists. Aim for genuine coverage of both where the question touches them.

Sibling boundary, argued not asserted

  • vs. Journal of Urban Economics (Elsevier, formal urban economics): JUE rewards the clean urban-economic mechanism; JEG additionally demands that geography — scale, region, network, institutions — be analytically central. If place is just a fixed effect, it is a JUE paper.
  • vs. Regional Science & Urban Economics: RSUE is the methods-forward regional-science venue; JEG wants the geographic and economic interpretation, not only the spatial-econometric machinery.
  • vs. Economic Geography & Regional Studies: these lean more humanistic/qualitative; JEG expects engagement with the quantitative/economic frontier even in a conceptual paper.
  • vs. Journal of International Economics: a trade paper becomes JEG only when the spatial reorganization of activity within or across regions is the object, not aggregate trade flows.

Referee pushback mapped to the positioning fix

  • "This is already known — see [classic agglomeration paper]." → Show the open question lives at the intersection the prior work did not reach (e.g., quantity measured by NEG but mechanism only theorized by EEG), and that you join them.
  • "The authors ignore the entire [evolutionary / quantitative-spatial] literature." → A one-sided review reads as not knowing the field; engage the missing camp's live frontier, not a token cite.
  • "Why is this JEG and not JUE / JIE?" → Answer with the analytical role of geography (scale, region, network, institutions), not with a sentence asserting fit.
  • "The contribution is incremental." → Restate the delta as a single sentence of new knowledge about space and the economy, and tie it to a result a referee can check.
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Worked vignette (illustrative)

A paper measures how related-variety predicts regional industrial branching using patent data. The author positions it only against the evolutionary-economic-geography literature (Boschma, Frenken). An economist referee says the identification and the agglomeration mechanism are invisible; the contribution looks like one more relatedness regression. The positioning fix is not new data: it is reframing the contribution at the meeting point — relatedness (EEG) is shown to operate through a knowledge-spillover mechanism the quantitative-spatial literature can identify, and the paper brings causal spatial design to a claim EEG had only documented descriptively. Now both literatures appear, the gap is the place they had not met, and the delta — branching is causal, not just correlated with relatedness — is a sentence both camps can grip.

Checklist

  • Contribution stated in one sentence naming the new knowledge about space and the economy
  • Both frontiers cited and engaged — geographical economics AND human/evolutionary geography
  • The most obvious recent papers a referee from each camp would name are addressed
  • The gap is shown to be real (the question is open in both literatures), not merely under-cited
  • The sibling boundary is argued with a substantive reason, not asserted
  • No straw-man of either community's prior work
  • The contribution sits at the intersection of the two literatures, not inside one

Positioning the method as a contribution

At JEG the method can itself be the bridge: bringing one community's tool to the other's question is a recognized contribution. Make it explicit when it applies — "the institutional account of cluster decline has been qualitative; we test it with a quantitative-spatial design," or "quantitative-spatial models assume frictionless relocation; we show, with case evidence, why institutions block it." Frame the methodological move as serving the substantive question, not as technique for its own sake, and the positioning lands with both camps at once.

Anti-patterns

  • A literature review that cites only NEG/quantitative-spatial work and ignores EEG/institutional geography, or the reverse
  • "Gap-spotting" — claiming novelty from absence of citations rather than a genuine open question
  • Citing a community's foundational paper but never engaging its actual argument (token bridging)
  • Asserting "this fits JEG better than JUE" without a reason rooted in the role of geography
  • Positioning against a decade-old survey instead of the live frontier

Output format

text
【Journal】Journal of Economic Geography
【Skill】jegeo-literature-positioning
【Contribution】one sentence: new knowledge about space and the economy
【Geographical-economics frontier】papers engaged + delta
【Human/evolutionary-geography frontier】papers engaged + delta
【Gap is real because】open in both literatures, not just under-cited
【Sibling boundary】why JEG not JUE / RSUE / EG / JIE (reason, not assertion)
【Next skill】jegeo-identification

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Economic-Geography-Skills/skills/jegeo-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jegeo Literature Positioning

What does Jegeo Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when staking a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript's contribution against both the geographical-economics and human-geography frontiers, and against sibling…. Jegeo Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when staking a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript's contribution against both the geographical-economics and human-geography frontiers, and against sibling journals.

When should I use Jegeo Literature Positioning?

Jegeo Literature Positioning fits situations like: staking a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscripts contribution against both the geographical-economics and human-geography frontiers; against sibling journals.

How do I install Jegeo Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jegeo Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

Can I use Jegeo 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 jegeo-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/jegeo-literature-positioning, .gemini/skills/jegeo-literature-positioning, .github/skills/jegeo-literature-positioning and .opencode/skills/jegeo-literature-positioning in your project.

What does Jegeo Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Jegeo 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 Jegeo 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 Jegeo Literature Positioning use?

Jegeo 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 Jegeo Literature Positioning use?

About 2.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.4k 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 Jegeo Literature Positioning?

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