# Citation matrix

`kaal:entity:citation-matrix`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `citation-matrix`. 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

2 claims across 1 works, 2026 to 2026.

**2026**

- [6269518-006](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-006) [mechanism/argued] -- 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.
  > The critical observation is that the PageRank calculation is a zero-sum redistribution mechanism with respect to citation weights: any increase in cx (credit attributed by i to j) necessarily decreases vi
  Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518
- [6269518-009](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-009) [mechanism/argued] -- 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.
  > The citation matrix C functions as an implicit contract specifying value distribution, yet the precise terms of this contract—the exact citation weights—cannot be determined with the precision the mathematical framework demands
  Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

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