# kaal:claim:6269518-037

**Claim.** Strategic under-citation is a form of commons degradation in which each individual act of under-citation slightly erodes the informational value of the reputation system for all users.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> Strategic under-citation is a form of commons degradation: each act of under-citation slightly erodes the informational value of the reputation system for all users.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance* (2026), VI.B. The Commons Management Perspective, page 16

**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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**Failure mode.** commons degradation by under-citation  (family: collective-action-and-coordination-failure)

**Topics.** institutional-design, citation-and-knowledge, reputation

**Keywords.** commons, ostrom, under-citation, reputation-systems

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