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Use when positioning a Field Crops Research (FCR) manuscript against the agronomy and crop-science literature so it reads as a general contribution to field-crop science, not a local report. FCR requires new scientific insight of general relevance and rejects corroborative or merely descriptive work, so the literature must establish the gap and the agronomic stakes. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.

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# Literature Positioning (fcr-literature-positioning)

FCR will not consider findings that are **corroborative, descriptive, or of only local significance**.
Positioning is therefore where you prove the work is **new and general**. The goal is to place the
paper where an agronomist or crop scientist anywhere can see the gap, the mechanism, and the advance.

## When to trigger

- Drafting or revising the introduction and the "objectives / contribution" paragraph
- A reviewer said the work is "already known," "confirmatory," or "only locally relevant"
- Your local results are solid but the paper doesn't connect to the broader field-crop literature
- You need to distinguish the contribution from the closest prior agronomy papers

## How FCR wants the literature engaged
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