Use when staking the computational/methodological contribution of an INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC) manuscript against OR/MS and CS…
Use when positioning a manuscript within the economic-growth literature for the Journal of Economic Growth (JEG) — placing it across the…
Use when positioning a Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP) manuscript against the literatures its section's readers…
Use when positioning a Mind article against the existing philosophical literature so the thesis reads as a genuine move in a live debate.
Use when positioning an Organization Science manuscript in the literature — identifying the organization-theory conversation it joins…
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)…
Use when the related-work framing is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript — defining the precise delta…
Use when positioning a Review of Finance (RoF) manuscript against the finance frontier — citing the right top-three work, honoring RoF's…
Use when positioning a Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) manuscript within the live strategy conversation.
Use when positioning a Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to sociological…
Use when staking a contribution against the development-economics frontier for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript, and…
Use when staking a World Development (WD) manuscript's contribution across the multidisciplinary development literature.