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   "text": "The PageRank calculation used for citation-weighted payment is a zero-sum redistribution mechanism with respect to citation weights: any increase in the credit agent i attributes to agent j necessarily decreases agent i's own value.",
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   "text": "The citation matrix functions as an implicit contract specifying value distribution whose precise terms cannot be determined with the precision the mathematical framework demands, which is an instance of the incomplete contract problem identified by New Institutional Economics.",
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