What problem does it solve?
Articulates how a research contribution extends beyond prior work, providing a structured way to communicate novelty, framing the narrative for reviewers, and accelerating manuscript writing.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Closest Works Selection: identify 3-5 relevant prior papers and justify their inclusion for positioning.
- Differentiation Matrix: create a 5-dimension matrix comparing each closest work across Research Question, Method, Models / Data, Key Findings, and Limitation Addressed.
- Contribution Statement: draft 2-3 candidate statements (method-first, finding-first, problem-first) ready for selection and polishing.
- Reviewer Objection Anticipation: generate 2-3 sentence rebuttals for each differentiator to address common objections.
- Related Work Paragraph Drafts: prepare 2-3 sentence paragraphs for each closest work for the related work section.
- Novelty Staleness Check: optionally compare with novelty-assessment to surface potential updates and warnings.
- Output: a ready-to-edit contribution-positioning.md document.
Quick Start
Provide novelty-assessment results or a user-described contribution with 3-5 closest works, then run the positioning workflow to generate the full positioning document.
