hidden citation

Meng, Varol & Barabási's (2024, PNAS Nexus) name for a measurable influence a later text shows from an earlier one with no accompanying citation — their machine-detectable operationalization of Merton's obliteration by incorporation, built with an LDA topic-modeling pipeline rather than embedding cosine similarity. First vault encounter: the 2026-09-17 capture that found the paper while testing whether real literature connects machine learning to OBI by any mechanism.

References

• claim-meng-varol-barabasi-2024-hidden-citations-uses-lda-not-embeddings-to-measure-obi
• Captures: 2026-09-17-recovered-bipartite-hop-is-the-cosine-086-pairing-cbc57a (recovered and promoted 2026-10-02)