---
title: "hidden citation"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "term"
status: "watching"
canonical_name: "hidden citation"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-09-17T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["obliteration by incorporation","Robert K. Merton","citation analysis","topic modeling (LDA)"]
seek_code_commit: "17d9798"
---


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
[[entity-obliteration-by-incorporation|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)