# kaal:claim:6192998-024

**Claim.** Citations should be mandatory and constrained to sum to one, which prevents arbitrary weighting, and citation honesty should be established as a game theoretic equilibrium rather than assumed.

**Type.** design  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> but with critical additions: (1) citations are mandatory and constrained to sum to 1, preventing arbitrary weighting, and (2) we provide game-theoretic analysis establishing citation honesty as an equilibrium (see Section IV.E).

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution* (2026), IV.A. Multi-Agent Competitive Collaboration Protocol, page 26

**Cite as.** 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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**Topics.** citation-and-knowledge, economics

**Keywords.** citation-graphs, normalization, game-theory, mechanism-design, attribution

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