Claim integrity

Whether a company's load-bearing published claims, such as trial registrations and landmark papers, actually exist.

The claim-existence verifier takes the claims a company makes about its own publications and trials and checks them against registries and literature indexes. Fabrication of a load-bearing claim does not lower one dimension; it multiplicatively caps the whole score through the fabrication cap. Claim integrity is deliberately excluded from the publish gate so that a company cannot stay unpublished merely because the check has not run.