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ier-literature-positioning

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Use when staking an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript's contribution against the frontier and against sibling journals (Econometrica/QE, the top-5, field journals). Sharpens the gap and the delta; it does not invent citations.

When to use

• staking IER manuscript contribution against frontier
• positioning against sibling journals
• sharpening the gap and delta
• identifying the closest single paper
• justifying IER over Econometrica/QE
• converting setting novelty to mechanism novelty
• positioning by branch (theory, structural, method, applied)

When not to use

• inventing citations
• inventing prior work
• topical importance or policy timeliness positioning
• field-journal framing without general mechanism

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