# kaal:claim:6269518-019

**Claim.** The structural solution to the under-citation incentive is to decouple citation accuracy from quality-based payment, which eliminates the zero-sum dynamic that creates the incentive to under-cite.

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

**Source quote.**

> The structural solution is to decouple citation accuracy from quality-based payment, thereby eliminating the zero-sum dynamic that creates the under-citation incentive.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance* (2026), IV.B. Solution 2: Decoupled Citation Rewards, page 10

**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

**Keywords.** decoupling, payment-design, citation-honesty-score, zero-sum

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