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   "text": "The on-chain reputation score becomes a universal, jurisdiction-neutral credential for digital-law expertise, analogous to a dynamically updated h-index for legal scholarship but cryptographically verifiable and immune to institutional capture.",
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   "text": "Academic citation networks do attribute foundational contributions, but they depend on centralized institutional contexts with stable identities and long horizons, and they suffer citation gaming, prestige bias, and poor real time quality assessment.",
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