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The power norm creates a tension in citation governance because actors with more authority or status may be able to under-cite without detection, since their established reputation shields them from scrutiny.

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The power norm presents a potential tension: actors with more authority or status may have greater ability to under-cite without detection, since their established reputation may shield them from scrutiny.

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Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026), VI.A. Distributive Norms and Citation Honesty, p. 16
https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518 · source PDF

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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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reputation disparities among agents

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: high status detection evasionfamily: reputation-system-gamingcitation-and-knowledgereputation

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