The Reference Class Problem for Credit Valuation in Science

Philosophy of Science 87 (5):1026-1036 (2020)
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Scholars belong to multiple communities of credit simultaneously. When these communities disagree about a scholarly achievement’s credit assignment, this raises a puzzle for decision and game theor...

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