27/05/2026
News, the web... systems we built to establish authority & trust are breaking down. What if research is next?
This guest blog post by Emily Alagha (VP of Government & Nonprofits, Digital Science) suggests that research authority runs on the same architecture as Google's: credibility flows through signals other people generate about you. Citations, impact factors, journal prestige - structurally identical to PageRank, and decades older.
How authority is built, gamed, and erodes are all explored - but what are the lessons learned, and is there a solution?
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