Applied Identity Physics: AIM Validation at the Eight-Month Timescale — The Controlled Pre-Submission Observation Window and Its Four Empirical Measurements
Observational study reveals rapid AI-mediated retrieval alongside zero academic citations, highlighting divergence between web indexing and institutional recognition.
Key Points
To assess search retrieval latency and measure institutional engagement, licensing adherence, and legal enforcement for a non-journal-submitted research corpus over an eight-month window.
Monitored web search indexing and citation activity across an eight-month window (January–September 2026) while withholding traditional journal submissions.
Evaluated search retrieval latency across 10 independent browser sessions and 5+ reset accounts across three query classes.
Tracked unauthorized source-code reproductions and measured platform response rates to formal copyright infringement notices.
AI-mediated search retrieval latency reached first-page placement within approximately four hours at a 10/10 rate across all tested query classes.
Recorded zero academic-of-note citations over the eight-month observation window despite ongoing academic outreach.
Identified 15+ instances of license violations on GitHub, with 10 out of 10 copyright infringement notices successfully executed without counter-notices.