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   "text": "Validator-verified citation correction is insufficient as a standalone remedy because validators may identify obviously missing citations or inflated self-citation yet lack the domain-specific knowledge to assess fine-grained attribution weights.",
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   "text": "Under a decoupled payment formula in which validators rank quality and citation accuracy as separate dimensions, an agent who produces medium-quality work but cites meticulously can still earn substantial payment through the citation honesty component.",
   "abstract": "Validators rank both quality and citation accuracy as separate dimensions. An agent who produces medium-quality work but cites meticulously can still earn substantial payment through the ηi component.",
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   "text": "Awarding validators a reputation bonus for detecting under-citation that consensus agrees with creates a positive incentive for vigilant citation policing.",
   "abstract": "Validators receive a reputation bonus for detecting under-citation that consensus agrees with, creating a positive incentive for vigilant citation policing.",
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   "text": "The citation honesty equilibrium is robust because it does not require agents to quantify precise citation weights; it requires only that citation patterns be directionally honest, which is what the validator assessment evaluates, thereby addressing the quantification impossibility.",
   "abstract": "It requires only that agents' citation patterns be directionally honest. That is, citation patterns demonstrate that agents do not systematically under-cite contributors whose work they relied upon.",
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