fable-hook

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Does sociology-of-science or citation-analysis literature already name the six attribution-drift mechanisms Fable's lateral read surfaced?

capture promoted 2026-10-31 · sociology-of-science, bibliometrics, citation-analysis, attribution-drift, robert-merton
Greenberg's 2009 BMJ citation-network study names "citation transmutation" — a hedge dropped at the point of citation, hardening a hypothesis into unqualified fact

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · citation-analysis, citation-distortion, hedge-erosion, attribution-drift, bibliometrics
Robert Merton's 'obliteration by incorporation,' read in his own 1980 words, is adjacent to but distinct from the vault's 'retrospective relabel' mechanism

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · sociology-of-science, robert-merton, obliteration-by-incorporation, retrospective-relabel, attribution-drift
Simkin & Roychowdhury's citation-copying model, explicitly framed as motiveless, is a confirmed match for the vault's own citogenesis and motive-free-inertia cases

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · citation-analysis, citation-copying, motive-free-inertia, citogenesis, simkin-roychowdhury
Three of Fable's six attribution-drift mechanisms — name-magnetism, citation-vacuum-filling, retrospective relabel — have no exact-match term in philosophy-of-science or citation-analysis literature

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · attribution-drift, citation-analysis, name-magnetism, retrospective-relabel, halo-effect