kaal:claim:6269518-021

Retroactive citation penalties deter under-citation only if the penalty parameter is set high enough that the expected gain from under-citation is less than the probability of detection multiplied by the penalty magnitude.

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where the penalty parameter is set sufficiently high (e.g., 0.5) that the expected value of under-citing is negative: the expected gain from under-citation must be less than the probability of detection multiplied by the penalty magnitude.

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Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026), IV.C. Solution 3: Retroactive Citation Penalties, p. 11
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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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challenges upheld through a validation pool
some positive probability of detection

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