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poq-literature-positioning
GitHub针对POQ期刊优化文献定位，展示方法论谱系并精准界定研究缺口。适用于引言修改、回应审稿人关于文献覆盖不足的质疑，或弥补方法/实质框架的薄弱点，确保同时满足实质与方法论读者的需求。
Trigger Scenarios
撰写或修改引言及贡献段落
审稿人指出遗漏关键文献或方法学讨论不足
需区分与最接近既往研究的贡献差异
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill poq-literature-positioning -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "poq-literature-positioning",
"description": "Use when positioning a Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to public-opinion or survey-methodology scholarship. POQ readers span opinion theory, communication, political behavior, and survey methods, so the paper must engage the right literatures and show the methodological lineage. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review."
}
Literature Positioning (poq-literature-positioning)
POQ sits at the intersection of public-opinion theory, communication, political behavior, and survey methodology. Positioning means showing reviewers — who are often survey scientists — that you know both the substantive debate and the methodological lineage your design belongs to. The goal is to place the paper where a POQ reader sees the gap and the move.
When to trigger
- Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph
- A reviewer said you "missed obvious work" or "don't engage the survey-methods literature"
- Your substantive framing is solid but the methodological grounding is thin (or vice versa)
- You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior papers
How POQ wants the literature engaged
- Engage the debate, not a pile of citations. Identify the live disagreement or open question — substantive (about attitudes, behavior, communication effects) or methodological (about a source of survey error) — that your paper speaks to.
- Show the methodological lineage. A POQ paper almost always inherits a survey-science tradition: the response-rate / nonresponse literature, mode-effects work, questionnaire-design and question-wording studies, weighting/MRP, Total Survey Error. Cite the works that define it.
- Two audiences at once. Satisfy substantive readers (why the opinion finding matters) and methodologists (why the measurement is credible). POQ values both.
- Name the gap precisely. Not "little is known" — say what is contested, mismeasured, under-theorized, or untested, and why resolving it advances opinion or survey science.
- Pre-empt the obvious objection. POQ reviewers will ask about coverage, nonresponse, wording, or
mode; acknowledge the strongest rival explanation and say how the design adjudicates it (hand off to
poq-survey-design-and-measurement).
Cross-literature engagement (a POQ demand)
| If your paper is… | also engage… |
|---|---|
| a substantive opinion finding | the measurement literature on how that construct is surveyed |
| a methods contribution | the substantive literatures that will use the method |
| a mode/nonresponse study | the Total Survey Error and AAPOR disclosure framework |
| a communication-effects study | the question-wording / framing and panel-attrition literatures |
Anti-patterns
- A "literature dump" with no organizing debate
- Engaging only the substantive side while ignoring the survey-methods lineage (a top POQ rejection reason)
- Strawmanning prior work, or hiding the closest competitor paper
- Self-citation that breaks anonymity (POQ is double-blind — see
poq-submission) - Claiming "first to study" when the contribution is incremental
Positioning pass for Public Opinion Quarterly
Run this as a concrete capability pass. First lock the public-opinion construct, sampling frame, mode effects, weighting/nonresponse plan, and trend or causal interpretation; then test whether the manuscript addresses survey and public-opinion reviewers who inspect measurement, sampling, mode, nonresponse, and inference about attitudes or behavior.
- Primary move: Build a three-column map: incumbent conversation, unresolved tension, and this manuscript's delta; include one sibling-venue omission that would make a referee doubt the fit.
- Decision ledger: return
claim / evidence / blocker / next editrows so the next pass can patch the manuscript directly. - Sibling comparison: compare against Political Analysis for methods-first work, Journal of Politics for political-science theory, Communication Research for media-effects framing; if the neighboring outlet has the stronger audience claim, recommend re-routing before polishing.
- Verification floor: before submission-ready advice, re-open
resources/official-source-map.mdfor volatile rules and name the one unresolved fact that could change the recommendation.
Output format
【Debate】the live disagreement / open question (substantive or methodological)
【Key works】the 3-6 that define it (incl. survey-methods lineage)
【Gap】what is contested / mismeasured / untested
【Move】how this paper changes the debate
【Strongest rival】and how the design will adjudicate it
【Next】poq-theory-and-hypotheses
Supplementary resources
../../resources/external_tools.md— survey-methodology literature anchors (TSE, AAPOR standards)../../resources/official-source-map.md— POQ scope across opinion, communication, and survey methods
Version History
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