# Citation honesty

`kaal:entity:citation-honesty`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `citation-honesty`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 2 works, 2026 to 2026.

**2026**

- [6244278-021](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6244278-021) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- 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.
  > rational agents face a direct financial disincentive to cite prior contributions.
  Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6244278
- [6269518-025](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-025) [design/asserted] -- 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.
  > The recommended integrated solution combines Solutions 2 and 4 as the primary mechanism, with Solutions 1 and 3 as supporting enforcement layers.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518
- [6269518-032](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-032) [condition/argued] -- 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.
  > 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:
  Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

## Verify

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