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   "text": "Rational agents face a direct financial disincentive to cite prior contributions, because citation transfers economic value away from the citing agent; the mechanism design challenge is therefore to make honest citation the economically rational strategy.",
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   "text": "The recommended integrated mechanism combines decoupled citation rewards and mandatory citation minimums as the primary mechanism, with validator-verified citations and retroactive penalties as supporting enforcement layers.",
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   "text": "Theorem 3b holds that under the integrated solution honest citation is a Nash equilibrium when validators assess citation accuracy and the marginal effect of citation accuracy on the honesty score exceeds the marginal gain from self-citation.",
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