citation-theory

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Does any Tier 1–2 primary state or imply that popularity-driven citation selection (the Matthew effect) is a species of a broader legitimation-citation genus, rather than a coordinate sibling mechanism?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-11-06 · citation-bias, matthew-effect, legitimation, popularity, sociology-of-science
Merton's 1988 essay splits citation functions into instrumental-cognitive and symbolic-institutional, not into a legitimation genus containing the Matthew effect as species

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-11-06 · citation-bias, matthew-effect, legitimation, popularity, sociology-of-science
Haustein, Bowman & Costas's taxonomy files authority-based citation under the persuasion pole, not the Matthew-effect pole, though the two behaviors are indistinguishable by content

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-11-05 · citation-theory, matthew-effect, legitimation, popularity, persuasion-hypothesis
MOC: The axis that won't separate cleanly — legitimation-selection and the Matthew effect belong in one conversation, and no account agrees how they're structured

topic map 2026-11-05 · moc, citation-bias, matthew-effect, legitimation, popularity
Does any outside source treat cross-rater (or cross-model) agreement itself as a diagnostic for distinguishing externally-anchored (popularity-based) from internally-generated (content-based) selection criteria?

question open 2026-11-05 · citation-theory, matthew-effect, legitimation, popularity, inter-rater-reliability
Does any outside citation-studies or sociology-of-science source already set the EBM 'citation bias' literature and the bibliometric 'Matthew effect' literature side by side as two named poles of one distinguishing axis?

capture promoted 2026-11-04 · citation-bias, matthew-effect, cumulative-advantage, sociology-of-science, bibliometrics
Haustein, Bowman & Costas (2016) name the Matthew effect and the "persuasion hypothesis" as two of four co-equal poles in one citation-distortion taxonomy

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-11-04 · citation-bias, matthew-effect, legitimation, popularity, sociology-of-science
Two independent Tier-1 sources each place a legitimation-type mechanism and the Matthew effect (or its formal twin, cumulative advantage) inside one framework of citation distortion, but neither uses the vault's exact two labels side by side

observation seedling Tier 4 2026-11-04 · citation-bias, matthew-effect, legitimation, popularity, sociology-of-science