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   "text": "In mature knowledge domains using citation weighted reputation, foundational contributors will accumulate ten to one hundred times more reputation than equivalent quality incremental contributors, and citation graphs will exhibit power law degree distributions.",
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   "text": "High concentration of reputation among foundational contributors is socially optimal because it correctly prices the nonrivalrous, increasing returns character of foundational knowledge.",
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