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est-literature-positioning
Use when positioning an Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) manuscript against prior work across environmental chemistry, engineering, toxicology, and policy. ES&T is multidisciplinary, so the paper must engage the right literatures and state the knowledge gap it closes. It frames the gap and citations; it does not fabricate references.
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# Literature Positioning (est-literature-positioning)
ES&T draws a multidisciplinary readership, and editors decline work that does not engage the relevant
literature or that re-derives what is already known. This skill positions the contribution: what is
known, what is missing, and why this paper closes the gap for a real environmental problem.
## When to trigger
- Writing the introduction or the "knowledge gap" framing
- Building a **Critical Review** or **Perspective** that must map a whole field
- A reviewer said the work "ignores relevant literature" or "is not novel"
- Deciding which adjacent fields (chemistry, engineering, tox, policy) to cite
## How to position for ES&T