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Use when positioning a Demography (PAA / Duke University Press) manuscript against the population-science literature so it reads as a contribution of general interest to demographers. Demography readers span fertility, mortality, migration, family, and health, so the paper must engage the demographic literatures they expect. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.

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# Literature Positioning (demog-literature-positioning)

Demography editors screen for whether a paper is "**of general interest to demographers**." A paper
that engages only a narrow applied literature — and not the demographic conversation it belongs to —
reads as off-fit and risks desk rejection. The goal is to place the paper where **population
scientists across components** can see the gap and the move.

## When to trigger

- Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph
- A reviewer said you "missed the demographic literature" or "this is just an applied paper"
- Your applied literature is solid but the paper doesn't connect to population science
- You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior demographic work
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