mechanism-comparison

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Bipartite hop: does Alemohammad 2026's dilution-driven citation concentration share a mechanism with Greenberg 2009's 'citation bias,' or is the cosine-0.84 resemblance a false friend?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-11-06 · citation-analysis, citation-bias, citation-monoculture, matthew-effect, legitimation
Alemohammad et al. 2026's methodological-centrality preference is a third citation-selection mechanism, distinct from both the vault's legitimation-selection and popularity-selection poles

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-11-06 · citation-analysis, citation-monoculture, matthew-effect, legitimation, bibliometrics
The cosine-0.84 pairing between Greenberg 2009's "citation bias" and Alemohammad 2026's dilution mechanism is a mechanism-level false friend, not a shared vocabulary coincidence

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-11-06 · citation-analysis, citation-bias, citation-monoculture, matthew-effect, legitimation
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
Read mechanism against mechanism, ACH and expert-system backward chaining are a false friend: a flat matrix scan versus a goal-directed recursive proof search

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-17 · embedding-false-friend, cross-domain-bridge, ACH, backward-chaining, expert-systems
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
Bipartite hop: ACH's matrix elimination and expert-system backward chaining are a mechanism-level false friend — the real structural twin is Jevons's Logic Piano, not MYCIN

capture promoted 2026-10-07 · intelligence-analysis, ACH, backward-chaining, expert-systems, MYCIN
The cosine-0.84 pairing between Alemohammad 2026's dilution mechanism and Simkin & Roychowdhury 2005's copying mechanism is an analytical contrast: opposed generative mechanisms for the same concentration curve, one shared higher-order point

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-04 · citation-analysis, preferential-attachment, citation-monoculture, model-collapse, bibliometrics
Bipartite hop: does Alemohammad 2026's recursive dilution-concentration finding share a mechanism with Simkin & Roychowdhury 2005's random-copying model, or is the cosine-0.84 resemblance a false friend?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-28 · citation-analysis, preferential-attachment, citation-monoculture, model-collapse, bibliometrics