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rfs-literature-positioning
GitHub针对RFS稿件，解决文献综述缺乏综合、贡献模糊等问题。通过界定与JF/JFE/RFS及前沿文献的精确差异（Delta），构建基于问题而非时间的定位结构，确保新颖性主张可辩护且符合顶刊审稿标准。
Trigger Scenarios
相关工作部分仅为罗列而无综合
无法用一句话清晰陈述贡献差异
读者质疑与近期顶刊论文的区别
需为选题新颖性提供文献防御
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rfs-literature-positioning -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "rfs-literature-positioning",
"description": "Use when the related-work framing is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript — defining the precise delta against JF\/JFE\/RFS and prior literature. Builds positioning, not the empirical design or the topic itself."
}
Literature Positioning (rfs-literature-positioning)
When to trigger
- The related-work section is a list ("X did A, Y did B") with no synthesis
- You cannot state your contribution as a single crisp delta
- A reader asks "how is this different from [recent RFS/JF/JFE paper]?"
- The novelty claim from
rfs-topic-selectionneeds to be defended against the literature
How RFS reviewers read positioning
RFS referees and editors are typically the authors of the papers you cite. The handling editor pool is concrete — Executive Editor Tarun Ramadorai plus editors such as Viral Acharya, Xavier Giroud, Andrey Malenko, Anna Pavlova, Clemens Sialm, David Sraer, and Jessica Wachter — so the person screening an intermediation, household-finance, or asset-pricing paper may well be a primary author in that literature. Positioning is judged on whether you (1) know the current frontier, (2) cite the right primary sources rather than secondary surveys, and (3) state a delta that is real and defensible — not rhetorical. When you build on an RFS-defining result (e.g., Brunnermeier–Pedersen 2009 on the liquidity-funding spiral, RFS 22(6)), cite the RFS original, not a later survey that paraphrases it.
The contribution must clear two bars simultaneously:
- Against the literature — what do we now know that we did not before?
- Against the closest 2–3 papers — what specifically do you do that they could not?
Positioning structure
Organize related work by the question, not chronologically:
- The anchor literatures — name the 2–4 strands you sit at the intersection of (e.g., intermediary asset pricing × household finance). Cite the canonical theory and the most-cited recent empirics.
- The frontier — the 3–5 most recent, most relevant papers (last ~3 years). Show you know what is in the pipeline.
- The wedge — one paragraph that names the closest paper(s) and states the precise gap: data they lacked, identification they could not achieve, mechanism they could not test, or theory they did not have.
- Your delta — one or two sentences, falsifiable: "We are the first to [X], which lets us [Y]."
Delta types that work at RFS
| Delta type | Example phrasing |
|---|---|
| New question | "Prior work studies pricing; we study the allocation consequences." |
| Cleaner identification | "Earlier estimates were confounded by selection; our shock breaks it." |
| New mechanism evidence | "The correlation was known; we provide the first direct test of why." |
| Theory + evidence | "We embed the fact in a model that yields a new, tested prediction." |
| New data | "We observe [previously unobservable margin], revising prior estimates." |
Citing across the top-3 and field journals
- Cite the primary RFS/JF/JFE source for each claim, not a later survey that summarizes it.
- When a result first appeared in a field journal but the framing is now at the top-3, cite both.
- For theory anchors, cite the foundational paper even if decades old — referees expect it.
- Distinguish "first to document" from "first to explain" — over-claiming either is easily disproven.
Checklist
- Related work is organized by question/theme, not by author or date
- The 2–3 closest papers are named explicitly and the delta vs. each is stated
- Recent (last ~3 years) RFS/JF/JFE work is cited — not just classics
- Canonical theory references for each anchor literature are present
- The delta is falsifiable, not "we add to the literature on X"
- You have not overstated novelty in a way a referee can disprove with one cite
- Cross-checked your closest cites against the likely RFS handling-editor's own work (they may referee it)
Anti-patterns
- A laundry-list literature review with no synthesis or wedge.
- Citing surveys/handbooks instead of the primary papers a referee wrote.
- Missing an obvious close competitor — reads as either ignorance or evasion.
- A delta phrased as "to the best of our knowledge, we are the first" with no defense.
- Positioning against field journals when the real competitors are at RFS/JF/JFE.
Output format
【Anchor literatures】[strand 1] × [strand 2] (+ canonical theory cites)
【Frontier papers】[3–5 recent JF/JFE/RFS papers]
【Closest competitors】[paper] → our delta vs. each
【One-sentence delta】"We are the first to ... which lets us ..."
【Open risk】a competitor a referee might raise
【Next step】rfs-identification
Version History
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