Use when positioning a Journal of Communication (JoC) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a field-wide contribution.
Use when positioning a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) manuscript against the labor literature — staking the contribution against the…
Use when positioning a The Journal of Politics (JOP) manuscript in the literature — staking a theoretically innovative, general-interest…
Use when positioning a Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) manuscript against prior work — the policy-evaluation evidence…
Use when positioning a Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART) manuscript against the public-administration…
Use when situating a Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (JPP&M) manuscript against both the marketing-and-policy literature and the…
Use when staking a Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) manuscript's contribution against the expected-utility-and-alternatives literature.
Use when the contribution of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript relative to the urban-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold.
Use when situating a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript in the right interdisciplinary conversation and naming the specific gap or…
Use when positioning an Organization Science manuscript in the literature — identifying the organization-theory conversation it joins…
Use when staking the contribution of an Organization Studies (OS) manuscript against the specific theoretical conversation it joins — what…
Use when placing an Operations Research (OR) manuscript against the OR/MS literature — separating your model, results, and algorithmic…
Use when mapping and entering a large, contested literature for a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay — defining the corpus…
Use when positioning a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript against the…
Use when positioning a Psychological Science manuscript against the literature within the journal's tight word budget.
Use when locating a Psychological Review manuscript within its theoretical conversation — naming the theories it extends and, above all…
Use when positioning a Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a field-wide contribution that…
Use to stake a Quantitative Economics (QE) manuscript's contribution against the frontier — what quantitative gap it closes relative to…
Use when staking the contribution against the innovation-studies literature for a Research Policy (RP) manuscript — anchoring in the…
Use when the marginal contribution of a The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) manuscript against the closest prior work is…
Use when the contribution relative to the accounting frontier and the sibling journals is fuzzy for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST)…