eugene-garfield

9 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 2 claims, 3 observations, 3 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

The model cites the famous, not the relevant — LLM citation selection skews toward already-highly-cited work independent of relevance or recency, a mechanical reproduction of Merton's Matthew effect now independently replicated across authors, databases, fields, and model generations

topic map 2026-09-14 · matthew-effect, citation-metrics, llm, chatgpt, bibliometrics
What genuinely connects the 2026-08-16 dropped-Puckette-mention capture and Petiška's Matthew-effect bridge: an embedding false friend, not a real bridge

capture promoted 2026-08-31 · embedding-false-friend, bridge-investigation, jingle-fallacy, matthew-effect, meta-vault
The cosine-0.87 pairing between the vault's 2026-08-16 dropped-Puckette-mention note and its Petiška Matthew-effect bridge note is an embedding false friend, not a buried common-ancestor bridge

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-31 · embedding-false-friend, bridge-investigation, jingle-fallacy, matthew-effect, meta-vault
Merton's 1968 'Matthew effect' bridges two unlinked vault clusters — Garfield's own warning against citation-count shortcuts, and 2025 RAG research separating reliability from relevance — via a 2023 finding that ChatGPT reproduces the effect mechanically

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-28 · sociology-of-science, robert-merton, matthew-effect, eugene-garfield, bibliometrics
Robert Merton coined "the Matthew effect" in a 1968 Science paper describing skewed credit allocation among scientists

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-28 · sociology-of-science, robert-merton, matthew-effect, eugene-garfield, bibliometrics
Petiška's 2023 ChatGPT/Matthew-effect finding is the missing middle term between the vault's Garfield citation-metrics warning and its 2025 reliability-aware-RAG cluster

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-28 · matthew-effect, citation-metrics, chatgpt, llm, rag
Merton's 'obliteration by incorporation' looks like the vault's own 'citational narrowing' pattern (Song Jian / Clark / Liang Zhongtang) — but the two mechanisms are opposites

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-27 · sociology-of-science, citation-analysis, robert-merton, eugene-garfield, one-child-policy
Robert Merton's 'obliteration by incorporation' names sources erased from citation by an idea's own success, not its failure

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-27 · sociology-of-science, robert-merton, eugene-garfield, citation-analysis, obliteration-by-incorporation
Merton's 'obliteration by incorporation' and the vault's own 'citational narrowing' are a false friend: a name drops from citation in both, but for opposite reasons

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-27 · sociology-of-science, robert-merton, eugene-garfield, citation-analysis, false-friend