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Use when staking the computational/methodological contribution of an INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC) manuscript against OR/MS and CS prior art. Positions the advance relative to the right baselines and the right frontier; it does not invent citations.

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# Literature Positioning (ijoc-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- Reviewers say "the contribution over existing methods is unclear" or "this is incremental"
- Your related-work section cites application papers but not the **algorithmic/computational** prior art you actually compete with
- You straddle OR and CS literatures and are unsure which frontier you are advancing
- A referee names a recent method you did not compare against, and you must decide whether it is the relevant baseline

## Positioning IJOC papers — two frontiers, one claim

An IJOC paper usually advances against **two literatures at once**: the OR/MS literature that owns the *problem* and the computing literature that owns the *method*. Your positioning must make clear which frontier you push and by how much, in computational terms. The decisive move is to identify the **state-of-the-art method you must beat or match**, cite it precisely, and commit to it as an experimental baseline. Vague positioning ("little work exists") reads as not having read the field and is a fast path to desk rejection by an Area Editor who knows it well.

| Your claim type | The prior art you must engage | The baseline this implies |
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