eponymy

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a name is a summary

essay draft 2026-07-26 · credit-assignment, burden-of-knowledge, team-science, history-of-ml, sociology-of-science

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Two of the best-known labels for misattributed scientific credit — Stigler's Law and the Matthew Effect — are themselves cases of it

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · sociology-of-science, credit-assignment, stiglers-law, matthew-effect, merton
Do the primaries confirm that Stigler credited his Law of Eponymy to Merton (1980) and that Merton credited the Matthew Effect to Zuckerman (1968)?

question answered 2026-07-12 · sociology-of-science, stiglers-law, matthew-effect, merton, eponymy
The sociology of science's credit laws are self-exemplifying — Stigler's law, the Matthew effect, and the Matilda effect are each named after someone other than their true originator

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · sociology-of-science, eponymy, priority, credit-assignment, stiglers-law