# kaal:claim:6269518-026

**Claim.** Under the recommended integrated mechanism agents may allocate no more than half of their citation weight to themselves, which is the mandatory citation minimum.

**Type.** design  **Support.** asserted

**Source quote.**

> Agents must allocate self-citation weight cii ≤ 0.5 (mandatory citation minimum).

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance* (2026), V.A. Mechanism Design, page 12

**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.** parameter-calibration, self-citation-cap, citation-minimums, mechanism-design

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