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title: "The Citation Chain: From Source to Post in Three Hops"
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type: "post"
slug: "the-citation-chain-from-source-to-post-in-three-hops"
published_at: "2026-08-06T12:18:59+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-08-06T12:18:59+00:00"
url: "https://lucidhive.com/the-citation-chain-from-source-to-post-in-three-hops/"
markdown_url: "https://lucidhive.com/the-citation-chain-from-source-to-post-in-three-hops.md"
excerpt: "A claim in a post should be traceable in three hops to a primary source: post cites synthesis, synthesis cites paper, paper is on arxiv."
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