# Self citation

`kaal:entity:self-citation`

**Status.** derived

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

- [6269518-007](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-007) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Under the standard citation-weighted payment formulation the dominant strategy for a self-interested agent is to cite no one and maximize self-attribution, which is the precise negation of honest knowledge attribution.
  > The rational strategy for any self-interested agent is therefore transparent: set cx = 0 for all j ≠ i (cite no one) to maximize personal payment. Under the standard formulation, the dominant strategy is maximal self-citation, which is the precise negation of honest knowledge attribution.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518
- [6269518-033](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-033) [condition/argued] -- The equilibrium depends on a design requirement rather than an assumption: mechanism parameters must be chosen so that the negative effect of increased self-citation on the honesty score outweighs its positive effect on the value score, at which point increasing self-citation strictly decreases utility.
  > the mechanism parameters (θ = 0.6, reputation coefficient = 2) are chosen such that the negative effect of increased self-citation on the honesty score outweighs the positive effect on the value score.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

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