# Citation minimums

`kaal:entity:citation-minimums`

**Status.** derived

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

- [6269518-023](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-023) [design/argued] -- Validators correcting citations should be permitted only to increase outward citations and never to decrease them, because a power to decrease would enable collusion to help allies under-cite competitors.
  > In the second phase, validators can increase citations to others if they detect under-citation. Critically, validators can only increase outward citations. They cannot decrease them. Thus, preventing collusion to help allies under-cite competitors.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518
- [6269518-026](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-026) [design/asserted] -- Under the recommended integrated mechanism agents may allocate no more than half of their citation weight to themselves, which is the mandatory citation minimum.
  > Agents must allocate self-citation weight cii ≤ 0.5 (mandatory citation minimum).
  Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

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