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Citation weights should be treated as approximate signals of attribution rather than precise measurements, and the governance system must be designed to function robustly under that inherent imprecision.

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Citation weights, similarly, should be understood as approximate signals of attribution rather than precise measurements, and the governance system must be designed to function robustly under this inherent imprecision.

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Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026), II.B. The Quantification Impossibility, p. 7
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Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

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citation weights cannot be specified precisely ex ante

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designsupport: arguedcitation-and-knowledgegovernance-designresearch-methods

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