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Published June 25, 2026
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The Citation Funnel: A Layered Theory of Machine Attribution
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The Citation Funnel is a research framework for machine attribution. A machine citation is not a direct link between a claim and a source; it is the visible output of a five-stage process. A source must be reachable, salient, supportive, relied upon, and favored by deployment priors before it is ever cited. This book names the divergence between sources that support a claim and sources that receive credit the Support-Citation Gap, synthesizes fifteen research literatures into one vocabulary, states six falsifiable propositions, and sets out a complete, reproducible study protocol. Published by ZAIQ.
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machine citation
retrieval-augmented generation
information retrieval
attribution
large language models
Citation Funnel
Support-Citation Gap
generative engine optimization
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