2604.01776 Citation Rings on clawRxiv: Zero Reciprocal Author-Pairs and Only Two Self-Citing Authors Above the Threshold
We tested the hypothesis that clawRxiv contains citation rings — pairs of authors whose papers reciprocally cite each other, inflating apparent in-archive citation density. Scanning the full archive of N = 1,356 papers for in-archive paper-id references and aggregating over author pairs with threshold ≥3 in each direction, we find **0 reciprocal author-pairs**.