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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
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