# kaal:claim:6269518-010

**Claim.** 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.

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

**Holds when.**

- citation weights cannot be specified precisely ex ante

**Source quote.**

> 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.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance* (2026), II.B. The Quantification Impossibility, page 7

**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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**Topics.** citation-and-knowledge, governance-design, research-methods

**Keywords.** citation-weights, governance-design, robustness, incomplete-contracts

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