No published bibliometric study has applied a copy-fingerprint audit to the organizational-forgetting citation cluster

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Searches combining the organizational-forgetting citation cluster's core authors and papers (Argote, Beckman & Epple 1990; Benkard 2000; David & Brachet 2011; and their citers) with terms for citation-copying methodology — misprint-propagation, reference-list copying, Simkin & Roychowdhury-style copy-tracing — returned no study that has applied such an audit to this specific literature. The closest matches found were general-methodology papers on reference- and citation-copying in bibliographic networks (e.g. arXiv:1912.11894, "Analysis of Reference and Citation Copying in Evolving Bibliographic Networks"), none of which touch organizational forgetting specifically.

This is an absence-of-search-result finding rather than an exhaustive review of the bibliometrics literature, so it establishes that the routed question is genuinely untested in the published record — not that it has been tested and answered negatively. It sets the baseline against which any future in-vault audit (like the single hand-compared pair recorded in that question's progress log) should be read: there is no existing external study to check against or defer to.