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matthew-effect

51 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 16 claims, 9 observations, 5 questions, 19 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  no one has to prefer anything
  essay drafting 2026-09-28 · citation-copying, neutral-drift, matthew-effect, llm, bibliometrics

Everything else

• 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
• A Bell-Labs/Multics world connected Thompson and Schell before 1974, but it predates Karger & Schell's report and neither primary names it as the credit channel
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-29 · ken-thompson, karger-schell, roger-schell, dennis-ritchie, multics
• Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust names its own decade-older source and still became the origin story — a Matthew-effect instance
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-19 · cross-domain-bridge, cross-time-period-bridge, matthew-effect, robert-merton, ken-thompson
• Ken Thompson's 1984 "Reflections on Trusting Trust" cited its source as "Unknown Air Force Document" and asked readers to identify it; Karger & Schell came forward, and he corrected the citation in a 1989 reprint — and the field credits Thompson anyway
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-19 · matthew-effect, robert-merton, ken-thompson, karger-schell, computer-security
• Liu, Chen, Liu, Lu & Murray 2026 find six LLMs over-cite popular and older papers, amplified for contrasting citations, affirming Algaba et al.'s popularity-bias finding
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-18 · llm-citation-bias, matthew-effect, citation-metrics, citation-intent, mechanism-comparison
• Niimi 2025 finds LLM bibliographic-record recall correlates with citation count (r=0.75, log-linear), becoming near-verbatim above roughly 1,000 citations
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-18 · llm-citation-bias, training-data-exposure, memorization, citation-metrics, matthew-effect
• Does Simkin & Roychowdhury's copying-driven citation skew — rather than citation-count inflation generally — explain the training-corpus distribution behind GPT-4's citation-popularity bias?
  capture promoted 2026-10-17 · citation-copying, matthew-effect, preferential-attachment, llm-citation-bias, training-data-exposure
• Mozafari et al. 2026 find LLM popularity judgments track pretraining-exposure frequency more closely than real-world popularity signals like Wikipedia pageviews
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-16 · llm-citation-bias, pretraining-exposure, popularity-bias, matthew-effect, olmo
• Does Simkin & Roychowdhury's copying-driven citation skew — rather than citation-count inflation generally — explain the training-corpus distribution behind GPT-4's citation-popularity bias?
  question open 2026-10-16 · citation-copying, matthew-effect, preferential-attachment, llm-citation-bias, training-data-exposure
• Does GPT-4's citation-selection bias toward highly-cited papers emerge from the same copying mechanism Simkin & Roychowdhury's 2005 model uses to explain human citation preferential attachment?
  capture promoted 2026-10-15 · citation-copying, bibliometrics, matthew-effect, preferential-attachment, llm-citation-bias
• The cosine-0.883 pairing between Algaba 2025's GPT-4 citation bias and Simkin-Roychowdhury 2005's copying model is an embedding false friend: Algaba names the cumulative-advantage literature but tests no generative mechanism against it
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-15 · citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics, preferential-attachment, citation-copying
• Algaba 2025's GPT-4 citation bias has no generative mechanism to compare against Simkin-Roychowdhury 2005's copying model — a thinner false friend than the vault's already-adjudicated Alemohammad-2026 pairing
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-14 · citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics, preferential-attachment, citation-copying
• The StereoMath/Griewank cosine-0.85 seed pairing is an embedding false friend — and neither obliteration-by-incorporation nor the Matthew Effect explains why
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-13 · embedding-false-friend, jingle-fallacy, obliteration-by-incorporation, matthew-effect, citation-lineage
• The StereoMath/Griewank seed pairing (cosine 0.85) is an embedding false friend — and not for the reason this vault's own OBI false-friend precedent would predict
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-11 · citation-lineage, obliteration-by-incorporation, matthew-effect, jingle-fallacy, embedding-false-friend
• Has anyone run the Wang-et-al.-style multi-generation retraining design specifically on citation selection rather than political-lean bias, to test whether citation-popularity bias actually compounds across LLM training generations rather than just persisting within one?
  capture promoted 2026-09-22 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, model-collapse
• Does LLM citation-popularity bias measurably compound across successive training generations as LLM-selected citations re-enter training corpora?
  capture promoted 2026-09-14 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics
• Has any study run a genuine multi-generation experiment measuring citation-popularity bias specifically compounding across LLM training rounds, distinct from general model-collapse degradation?
  capture promoted 2026-09-14 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, model-collapse
• The cross-vendor citation-selection agreement behind citation-popularity bias collapses under recursion when candidates are AI-generated, even as concentration on real papers survives
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-14 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics
• A twelve-round recursive citation-selection benchmark finds citation concentration on real papers intensifies through dilution of the candidate pool, not through the underlying preference growing stronger
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-14 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics
• 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
• Is Petiška's 2023 finding that GPT-4 selects citations by raw Google Scholar popularity replicated elsewhere, and does the vault's citational-narrowing pattern predict how that bias compounds as LLM output becomes training data?
  capture promoted 2026-09-13 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics
• What genuinely connects the Falcon-Helmholtz and Puckette-dropped-mention/Petiška-Matthew-effect 'embedding false friend' notes (cosine 0.87): another disjoint-recursion-level false friend, same species as the vault's Kelly-Luccioni precedent
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-13 · embedding-false-friend, cosine-similarity, jingle-fallacy, retrieval, epistemics
• Algaba et al. 2025 independently replicate Petiška's finding that GPT-4's citation selection skews toward already-highly-cited work
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-13 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics
• Naser 2026's ten-model citation audit finds the same popularity-driven citation-selection bias across every major LLM vendor
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-13 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics
• The cosine-0.87 pairing between the Falcon-Helmholtz object-level false-friend note and the Puckette-Petiška meta-level false-friend note is itself an embedding false friend
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-09-13 · embedding-false-friend, jingle-fallacy, bridge-investigation, meta-vault, cosine-similarity
• Petiška's 2023 citation-popularity finding is now independently replicated by two later studies, across different authors, databases, fields, and models
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-09-13 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics
• Does LLM citation-popularity bias measurably compound across successive training generations as LLM-selected citations re-enter training corpora?
  question open 2026-09-13 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, model-collapse
• What genuinely connects the Kelly-Luccioni and Puckette-Petiška embedding-false-friend notes?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-03 · embedding-false-friend, jingle-fallacy, bridge-investigation, meta-vault, cosine-similarity
• The Kelly-Luccioni and Puckette-Petiška 'embedding false friend' verdicts are themselves an embedding false friend — disjoint recursion levels, non-convergent grounding
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-09-03 · embedding-false-friend, jingle-fallacy, bridge-investigation, meta-vault, cosine-similarity
• Does Merton's 'obliteration by incorporation' (OBI) concept, read directly from his 1988 paper, map onto the backpropagation citation gap?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-02 · sociology-of-science, robert-merton, obliteration-by-incorporation, matthew-effect, backpropagation
• The backpropagation citation gap is Merton's Matthew Effect, not his obliteration by incorporation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-02 · sociology-of-science, robert-merton, obliteration-by-incorporation, matthew-effect, backpropagation
• Merton's 1988 paper defines "obliteration by incorporation" in a single footnoted aside and defers full development to his own earlier texts
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-02 · sociology-of-science, robert-merton, obliteration-by-incorporation, matthew-effect, citation-analysis
• What genuinely connects the Petiška/Garfield/RA-RAG bridge and the Gates-Jevons/Liang-Olsder cosine-0.87 bridge: two different species of "confirmed bridge," not one relationship
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-31 · matthew-effect, citation-metrics, chatgpt, rag, embedding-false-friend
• 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 Petiška/Garfield/RA-RAG bridge and the Gates-Jevons/Liang-Olsder cosine-0.87 bridge are not connected to each other — they are two different species of "confirmed bridge" finding
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-31 · bridge-taxonomy, meta-vault, jingle-fallacy, matthew-effect, embedding-false-friend
• 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
• Does a cleaner scan of Merton's 1968 'The Matthew Effect in Science' (AAAS/Science venue-of-record, or JSTOR) yield a verbatim quote where the garfield.library.upenn.edu reprint's OCR does not?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-29 · robert-merton, matthew-effect, quote-verification, ocr, garfield-library
• Merton 1968's own Biblical quotation fails quote_check against the garfield.library.upenn.edu scan because of adjacent-column bleed-through, not character-level OCR noise alone
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · robert-merton, matthew-effect, ocr, quote-verification, garfield-library
• The Scribd re-upload of Merton's 1968 'Matthew Effect' paper is not an independent or cleaner scan — it reproduces the garfield.library.upenn.edu copy's identical OCR errors
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · robert-merton, matthew-effect, ocr, source-availability, quote-verification
• No freely accessible cleaner scan of Merton's 1968 'Matthew Effect' paper is known, as of 2026-08-29 — AAAS and JSTOR block current tooling, and the only other free copy is the same degraded scan
  observation seedling Tier 4 2026-08-29 · robert-merton, matthew-effect, source-availability, quote-verification, garfield-library
• 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
• A 2023 study found ChatGPT selects citations by relying solely on Google Scholar citation counts, framed by its author as the Matthew effect operating inside an LLM
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-28 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, 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
• Does a cleaner scan of Merton's 1968 'The Matthew Effect in Science' (AAAS/Science venue-of-record, or JSTOR) yield a verbatim quote where the garfield.library.upenn.edu reprint's OCR does not?
  question answered 2026-08-28 · robert-merton, matthew-effect, quote-verification, ocr, garfield-library
• 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
• Does Schmidhuber's 'Annotated History' open verbatim with 'Machine learning is the science of credit assignment,' and does he ever name the Matthew Effect?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · credit-assignment, schmidhuber, sociology-of-science, matthew-effect, verification
• 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
• Two senses of 'credit assignment' — the Merton–Stigler sociology of scientific credit is the frame both the Dreyfus-1973 and Chandler notes were already inside
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · sociology-of-science, credit-assignment, multiple-discovery, stiglers-law, matthew-effect
• 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