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jegeo-literature-positioning
Use when staking a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript's contribution against both the geographical-economics and human-geography frontiers, and against sibling journals. Sharpens positioning; it does not invent citations.
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# Literature Positioning (jegeo-literature-positioning)
## When to trigger
- The contribution sentence is vague ("we add to the agglomeration literature") or speaks to only one of JEG's two communities
- Reviewers might say "this is already known" because you cited the NEG literature but not the evolutionary/institutional work, or vice versa
- The paper sits between JEG and a sibling (JUE, RSUE, Economic Geography, Regional Studies, JIE) and the boundary is not argued
- You are unsure whether the gap you claim is real or just under-cited
## Positioning across two literatures at once
JEG referees come from both sides of the bridge, so a one-sided literature review reads as not knowing the field. The contribution must be located against **both** frontiers:
- **The geographical-economics frontier:** New Economic Geography (Krugman, Fujita-Krugman-Venables), and the quantitative-spatial-economics turn (Redding, Rossi-Hansberg, Allen-Arkolakis, Donaldson) that made NEG estimable. If your paper is empirical, position against the quantitative-spatial models you are testing, calibrating, or relaxing.