Agent skill

Joap Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript against the I-O literature so the theoretical contribution is unmistakable.

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Install Joap Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills joap-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-Applied-Psychology-Skills/skills/joap-literature-positioning .claude/skills/joap-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
joap-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
555 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 Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript against the I-O literature so the theoretical contribution is unmistakable.

  • Works in 5 steps: Open with the phenomenon and its stakes,… → Name the gap precisely. What is… → State the contribution against the… → …
  • Positioning a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript against the I-O literature so the theoretical contribution is unmistakable
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How to position, Sibling-venue boundary… and Worked micro-example…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Joap Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript against the I-O literature so the theoretical contribution is unmistakable. JAP expects the gap and the advance stated against the closest prior work — and a clear distinction from sibling venues (Personnel Psychology, AMJ, OBHDP, JOB). Stakes the contribution; it does not write the literature review.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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 Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript against the I-O literature so the theoretical contribution is unmistakable
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging
  • Tasks that involve Literature review

Example prompts

  • “/joap-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Open with the phenomenon and its stakes, for work and for theory — not a textbook history of
  2. Name the gap precisely. What is unresolved, contested, or untested in I-O theory — and why
  3. State the contribution against the closest prior study. By the end of the Introduction the
  4. Anchor, don't pad. Cite the works that define the construct and mechanism and the closest
  5. Guard the venue boundary. Show why this is a JAP contribution — micro/individual + measurement

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

Joap Literature Positioning loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 100 tokens; SKILL.md has 555 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~100
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 555 words, ~1,507 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/joap-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
joap-literature-positioning
description
Use when positioning a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript against the I-O literature so the theoretical contribution is unmistakable. JAP expects the gap and the advance stated against the closest prior work — and a clear distinction from sibling venues (Personnel Psychology, AMJ, OBHDP, JOB). Stakes the contribution; it does not write the literature review.

Literature Positioning (joap-literature-positioning)

In JAP, positioning is where the theoretical contribution becomes legible. The introduction must name the open question, the closest prior work, and exactly what this paper adds to I-O theory — and it must make clear why the work belongs in JAP rather than a sibling journal. Positioning is argument construction, not a literature survey.

When to trigger

  • Drafting or sharpening the Introduction and the "contribution" paragraph
  • A reviewer said the contribution is "incremental," "not clearly novel," or "overlaps prior work"
  • You have far more citations than the argument needs and must prioritize
  • A reviewer suggested the paper "fits another journal better"

How to position

  1. Open with the phenomenon and its stakes, for work and for theory — not a textbook history of the construct.
  2. Name the gap precisely. What is unresolved, contested, or untested in I-O theory — and why settling it matters. Avoid "little is known about X at work."
  3. State the contribution against the closest prior study. By the end of the Introduction the reader knows the mechanism, the level, and what is new relative to the specific papers nearest to yours (the contrast class), not the field at large.
  4. Anchor, don't pad. Cite the works that define the construct and mechanism and the closest competitors you extend or overturn; prune redundant background.
  5. Guard the venue boundary. Show why this is a JAP contribution — micro/individual + measurement emphasis, an I-O theory advance — not an AMJ macro/meso paper, an OBHDP process-cognition paper, or a Personnel Psychology selection-validation paper.

Sibling-venue boundary (position deliberately)

SiblingIts center of gravityPosition away from it by...
Personnel Psychologypersonnel selection, assessment, validation, applied I-Oleading with a theoretical mechanism, not a validation study
Academy of Management Journal (AMJ)macro/meso management, organizational outcomesforegrounding individual/team psychological processes + measurement
OBHDPjudgment, decision processes, experimental micro-OBanchoring in I-O theory + field generalizability, not only lab process
Journal of Organizational Behavior (JOB)broad OB, overlapping micro topicsemphasizing JAP's stronger measurement/quantitative-rigor bar
Show full SKILL.md (225 more words)Show less

Worked micro-example (illustrative)

A servant-leadership package positions against a well-cited but cross-sectional prior finding. Weak framing: "Prior work has examined servant leadership and performance (refs 1–22)." JAP-fit framing:

Stakes:   Whether leaders raise team performance by building safety — versus
          by direct monitoring — is a load-bearing question for leadership theory.
Gap:      The closest prior studies (cross-sectional, single-source) cannot
          establish the mediating mechanism or its level; the cross-level safety
          path has not been tested with temporal and multilevel separation.
Contribution (by paragraph three):
          A two-wave multilevel field study + lab experiment identify team
          psychological safety as the mechanism and task interdependence as its
          boundary — a cross-level account, not a new correlate.
Boundary: This is a JAP micro/measurement contribution (team-level mechanism,
          construct validity), distinct from an AMJ firm-outcome study.

Citation-budget triage

RoleKeep?Why it earns a slot in JAP
Defines the construct / mechanismalwaysthe theory is illegible without it
Closest prior result you extend or overturnalwaysthis is the contribution's contrast class
Measurement / validity provenanceusuallyreviewers check construct validity
Level-of-analysis / method precedentusuallyjustifies the multilevel or experimental design
Background-completeness citationcut firstJAP rewards a sharp contrast, not coverage

Positioning-stage reviewer pushback and the venue fix

  • "Contribution is incremental" → state the new mechanism or boundary, not a longer literature tour; contrast with the single closest paper.
  • "'First to show' overclaim" → downgrade to "first to test the mechanism with temporal + multilevel separation"; cite the priors honestly.
  • "Overlaps existing work" → add a one-paragraph "how this differs from [closest paper]" statement.
  • "Fits another journal" → make the I-O-theory + measurement contribution explicit (see the sibling table).

Anti-patterns

  • A chronological construct history instead of a sharp gap-and-contribution argument
  • Burying the contribution after pages of background
  • Citing exhaustively to seem thorough rather than to define the contrast class
  • "First to show" claims for an incremental effect
  • Positioning that could equally describe an AMJ, OBHDP, or Personnel Psychology paper

Output format

【Phenomenon + stakes】why it matters for work and for I-O theory
【Gap】what is unresolved / contested / untested
【Contribution】new mechanism / boundary / integration — vs the closest prior paper
【Anchor citations】defining works + closest competitors
【Venue boundary】why JAP, not Personnel Psychology / AMJ / OBHDP / JOB
【Next】joap-study-design

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 Journal-of-Applied-Psychology-Skills/skills/joap-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Joap Literature Positioning

What does Joap Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript against the I-O literature so the theoretical contribution is unmistakable. Joap Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript against the I-O literature so the theoretical contribution is unmistakable.

When should I use Joap Literature Positioning?

Joap Literature Positioning fits situations like: positioning a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript against the I-O literature so the theoretical contribution is unmistakable; tasks that involve Positioning and messaging; tasks that involve Literature review.

How do I install Joap Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Joap Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Joap Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Joap 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 Joap 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 Joap Literature Positioning use?

Joap 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 Joap Literature Positioning use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k 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 Joap 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.

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