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The aim is to analyze how institutions rely on citation signals rather than empirical evidence for policy decisions.

April 8, 2026Open Access

The Evidence‑Based Policy Experiment: How Institutions Mistake Citation Signals for Reality

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The aim is to analyze how institutions rely on citation signals rather than empirical evidence for policy decisions.
Critique of existing literature on evidence-based policy
Analysis of retraction patterns and peer-review processes
Examination of publishing and indexing infrastructures
Identified patterns of epistemic drift in policy making
Highlighted prestige bias affecting decision-making
Showed that citation dependencies distort institutional governance

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This essay argues that institutions misinterpret citation signals, suggesting flaws in evidence-based policy and its legitimacy.

Signal Rupture (2026) studied this question.

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