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March 8, 2026Open Access

Structural Appropriation and Epistemic Asymmetry: Why Independent Research Is Treated as a Public Resource Without Rights

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JKJace (Jeong Hyeon) Kim

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Overview

Demonstrates appropriation is a systematic outcome of governance structures in independent research, suggesting reform is necessary.

Key Points

  • To analyze how governance-level mechanisms affect independent research and innovation within scientific knowledge production.
  • Theoretical analysis of structural mechanisms within academic ecosystems.
  • Documentation of empirical cases of appropriation and attribution loss.
  • Examination of citation networks as closed systems of legitimacy.
  • Highlights the disparity between institutional and independent research in terms of protection and attribution.
  • Illustrates how governance structures lead to the appropriation of independent ideas without recognition.
  • Demonstrates that citation networks reinforce epistemic lock-in, limiting novelty in knowledge production.

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Jace (Jeong Hyeon) Kim (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69acc59c32b0ef16a40501f4https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18883229
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