# H index

`kaal:entity:h-index`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `h-index`. 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 2 works, 2025 to 2026.

**2025**

- [5887242-026](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5887242-026) [definitional/argued] -- 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.
  > The on-chain reputation score thereby becomes the universal, jurisdiction-neutral credential for digital-law expertise—analogous to a dynamically updated h-index for global legal scholarship, but cryptographically verifiable and immune to institutional capture.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242

**2026**

- [6192998-006](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6192998-006) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- 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.
  > However, these systems operate in centralized institutional contexts with stable identities and long time horizons. They also suffer from citation gaming, prestige bias, and poor mechanisms for real-time quality assessment.18
  Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998

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