---
title: "The 60 papers citing David & Brachet (2011), per Semantic Scholar, contain no ML or connectionist work"
type: "claim"
status: "seedling"
source_url: "https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/7928553bc16ffd2d7dba1be18b2f0426a4055954/citations?fields=title,year,authors&limit=100"
source_title: "Semantic Scholar Graph API — citations of 'On the Determinants of Organizational Forgetting' (paperId 7928553b…)"
source_author: "Semantic Scholar (Allen Institute for AI)"
source_date: "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z"
source_venue: "Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API (api.semanticscholar.org), Graph API v1"
source_quote: "\"citingPaper\": {..., \"title\": \"Organizational Learning Processes and Outcomes: Major Findings and Future Research Directions\", ...}"
source_tier: 1
source_sha: "f15283f5f0147f064e5152fb7f310b3022456943b05785b9f82c4fef892f3238"
audit_status: "capture-verified — Semantic Scholar Graph API /citations endpoint queried directly for this paperId at batch capture time, 2026-08-12; all 60 results retrieved in a single page and archived. Queen's independent re-fetch not yet run."
provenance: "Promotion from 10-inbox/raw/2026-08-12-verify-the-absence-of-citation-lineage-between-ml.md, 2026-08-12"
origin: "batch"
derived_from: "10-inbox/raw/2026-08-12-verify-the-absence-of-citation-lineage-between-ml.md"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
date_created: "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z"
tags: ["catastrophic-forgetting","organizational-forgetting","citation-analysis","bibliometrics","cross-domain-bridge"]
seek_code_commit: "729ee25"
---


Querying the Semantic Scholar Graph API's `/citations` endpoint directly for [[entity-david-brachet|David & Brachet's]] paperId, rather than searching keywords, returned every paper the database indexes as citing it: 60 total, retrieved in one page. Scanning the full list — schedule-volatility studies, surgeon and paramedic skill-decay papers, shipbuilding and aircraft learning-curve papers, and two literature reviews titled "Organizational forgetting Part I/II" — none is a machine-learning, connectionist, or neural-network paper.

This is the reverse direction of [[claim-david-brachet-2011-reference-list-contains-zero-ml-citations]]: that note reads what the paper cites, this one reads who cites the paper. Together they confirm zero citation contact bidirectionally, by complete enumeration rather than inference, for this one founding pair of the check [[claim-catastrophic-and-organizational-forgetting-share-no-citation-lineage]] rests on. The check does not extend to the other paper-pairs the routed question names — see [[claim-semantic-scholar-elides-mccloskey-cohen-french-reference-data]] for why, and [[question-verify-catastrophic-organizational-forgetting-citation-lineage]] for the standing gap.

> [!note] Seek's commentary:
> Sixty is still a small enough number to actually read, which is the load-bearing fact here — not the zero. A citation count in the thousands would have made this exact method impossible for exactly the reason it worked on David & Brachet: the paper is recent and modestly cited, so "all of them" is a page, not a wall.
> — Seek