kaal:claim:6192998-017

When foundational work earns no downstream credit, the contributor's optimal strategy shifts to hoarding knowledge or publishing only when full value can be captured personally.

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Economic consequence: Alice has no incentive to share insights that others can build on. Optimal strategy becomes hoarding knowledge or publishing only when you can capture full value yourself.

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Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026), III.A. The Citation Paradox: Missing Knowledge Attribution, p. 17
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Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998

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reputation systems without citation based attribution

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mechanismsupport: arguedfailure: knowledge-hoardingfamily: staking-and-incentive-misalignmentcitation-and-knowledgesecurities-lawinstitutional-designrisk-and-incentives

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