# kaal:claim:6269518-004

**Claim.** The under-citation incentive is a structural flaw in the mechanism design, not a parameter calibration issue that could be corrected by retuning existing settings.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> First, it formalizes the under-citation incentive problem and demonstrates that it constitutes a structural flaw rather than a mere parameter calibration issue (§II).

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance* (2026), I. Introduction, page 5

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

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**Failure mode.** structural rather than calibration flaw  (family: staking-and-incentive-misalignment)

**Topics.** citation-and-knowledge

**Keywords.** under-citation, mechanism-design, structural-flaw, citation-protocol

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