[
  {
    "id": "R01",
    "authors": "Seibert, S. E., Kraimer, M. L., & Liden, R. C.",
    "year": 2001,
    "title": "A social capital theory of career success",
    "journal": "Academy of Management Journal",
    "volume": "44",
    "issue": "2",
    "pages": "219-237",
    "doi": "10.5465/3069452",
    "url": "https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/3069452?rss=1&ssource=mfc",
    "type": "Observational study",
    "claim": "Social capital and network benefits are associated with career success.",
    "limit": "The reported structural model does not establish CVT or a causal visibility premium.",
    "access": "Publisher abstract and bibliographic record inspected through indexed text. Direct open intermittently unavailable."
  },
  {
    "id": "R02",
    "authors": "Burt, R. S.",
    "year": 2004,
    "title": "Structural holes and good ideas",
    "journal": "American Journal of Sociology",
    "volume": "110",
    "issue": "2",
    "pages": "349-399",
    "doi": "10.1086/421787",
    "url": "https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?id=doi%3A10.1086%2F421787",
    "type": "Observational organizational research",
    "claim": "Brokerage is associated with valued ideas and career outcomes in the studied organization.",
    "limit": "Associations do not separate productive brokerage from all credit-allocation effects.",
    "access": "Publisher abstract and metadata inspected."
  },
  {
    "id": "R03",
    "authors": "Ferris, G. R., Treadway, D. C., Perrewé, P. L., Brouer, R. L., Douglas, C., & Lux, S.",
    "year": 2007,
    "title": "Political skill in organizations",
    "journal": "Journal of Management",
    "volume": "33",
    "issue": "3",
    "pages": "290-320",
    "doi": "10.1177/0149206307300813",
    "url": "https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0149206307300813",
    "type": "Conceptual theory",
    "claim": "Political skill has an existing multilevel theoretical account.",
    "limit": "A conceptual account is not an empirical validation of CVT.",
    "access": "Publisher abstract and metadata inspected."
  },
  {
    "id": "R04",
    "authors": "Munyon, T. P., Summers, J. K., Thompson, K. M., & Ferris, G. R.",
    "year": 2015,
    "title": "Political skill and work outcomes: A theoretical extension, meta-analytic investigation, and agenda for the future",
    "journal": "Personnel Psychology",
    "volume": "68",
    "issue": "1",
    "pages": "143-184",
    "doi": "10.1111/peps.12066",
    "url": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/peps.12066/abstract",
    "type": "Meta-analysis",
    "claim": "Political skill is positively associated with performance and career outcomes.",
    "limit": "Associations do not imply that all influence is productive or establish CVT causality.",
    "access": "Publisher abstract and metadata inspected. Issue year 2015 retained; online-first date is 2013."
  },
  {
    "id": "R05",
    "authors": "Heilman, M. E., & Haynes, M. C.",
    "year": 2005,
    "title": "No credit where credit is due: Attributional rationalization of women's success in male-female teams",
    "journal": "Journal of Applied Psychology",
    "volume": "90",
    "issue": "5",
    "pages": "905-916",
    "doi": "10.1037/0021-9010.90.5.905",
    "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16162063/",
    "type": "Three experimental studies",
    "claim": "Ambiguous contribution in the studied mixed-sex team scenarios supported unequal credit judgments.",
    "limit": "Do not generalize the experiment to every group, role, or workplace decision.",
    "access": "PubMed primary article abstract and bibliographic record inspected."
  },
  {
    "id": "R06",
    "authors": "Babcock, L., Recalde, M. P., Vesterlund, L., & Weingart, L.",
    "year": 2017,
    "title": "Gender differences in accepting and receiving requests for tasks with low promotability",
    "journal": "American Economic Review",
    "volume": "107",
    "issue": "3",
    "pages": "714-747",
    "doi": "10.1257/aer.20141734",
    "url": "https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20141734",
    "type": "Empirical task-allocation research",
    "claim": "The study examines gender differences in volunteering for and receiving requests for low-promotability tasks.",
    "limit": "It does not establish a general builder disadvantage or that all service work lacks value.",
    "access": "Publisher abstract and metadata inspected through AEA mirror swlb1.aeaweb.org."
  },
  {
    "id": "R07",
    "authors": "Benson, A., Li, D., & Shue, K.",
    "year": 2019,
    "title": "Promotions and the Peter Principle",
    "journal": "The Quarterly Journal of Economics",
    "volume": "134",
    "issue": "4",
    "pages": "2085-2134",
    "doi": "10.1093/qje/qjz022",
    "url": "https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/134/4/2085/5550760",
    "type": "Observational personnel study",
    "claim": "The published sales-firm study examines trade-offs between current performance and managerial matching.",
    "limit": "A role-specific finding does not establish a universal promotion rule or a builder penalty.",
    "access": "Publisher article sections, abstract, and metadata inspected. Published version used rather than a different working-paper sample."
  },
  {
    "id": "R08",
    "authors": "Colquitt, J. A.",
    "year": 2001,
    "title": "On the dimensionality of organizational justice: A construct validation of a measure",
    "journal": "Journal of Applied Psychology",
    "volume": "86",
    "issue": "3",
    "pages": "386-400",
    "doi": "10.1037/0021-9010.86.3.386",
    "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11419799/",
    "type": "Measurement validation study",
    "claim": "The paper distinguishes dimensions of organizational justice.",
    "limit": "Its validation does not extend to CVT original items or establish attribution accuracy.",
    "access": "PubMed abstract and metadata inspected."
  },
  {
    "id": "R09",
    "authors": "Podsakoff, P. M., MacKenzie, S. B., Lee, J.-Y., & Podsakoff, N. P.",
    "year": 2003,
    "title": "Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies",
    "journal": "Journal of Applied Psychology",
    "volume": "88",
    "issue": "5",
    "pages": "879-903",
    "doi": "10.1037/0021-9010.88.5.879",
    "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14516251/",
    "type": "Methodological review",
    "claim": "Shared methods can affect behavioral-research measurements and require design attention.",
    "limit": "No single diagnostic certifies that CVT observations are free of method bias.",
    "access": "PubMed abstract and metadata inspected."
  },
  {
    "id": "R10",
    "authors": "Day, D. V., Fleenor, J. W., Atwater, L. E., Sturm, R. E., & McKee, R. A.",
    "year": 2014,
    "title": "Advances in leader and leadership development: A review of 25 years of research and theory",
    "journal": "The Leadership Quarterly",
    "volume": "25",
    "issue": "1",
    "pages": "63-82",
    "doi": "10.1016/j.leaqua.2013.11.004",
    "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984313001197",
    "type": "Research and theory review",
    "claim": "Leadership development involves individual and interpersonal processes and longitudinal evaluation.",
    "limit": "The review does not establish the effectiveness of the CVT 90 day curriculum.",
    "access": "Publisher abstract, metadata, and available section summaries inspected."
  },
  {
    "id": "R11",
    "authors": "DeRue, D. S., & Ashford, S. J.",
    "year": 2010,
    "title": "Who will lead and who will follow? A social process of leadership identity construction in organizations",
    "journal": "Academy of Management Review",
    "volume": "35",
    "issue": "4",
    "pages": "627-647",
    "doi": "",
    "url": "https://www.up.ac.za/media/shared/78/ZP_Files/2020/derue_ashford-2010.zp195280.pdf",
    "type": "Conceptual theory",
    "claim": "Leadership identity is proposed as a social process involving claims and grants.",
    "limit": "This is a theory, not proof of CVT training effectiveness. DOI aliases were not independently reconciled, so no DOI is supplied.",
    "access": "Published primary paper header and abstract inspected through indexed university-hosted PDF. Direct open unavailable; full-text appraisal not claimed."
  },
  {
    "id": "R12",
    "authors": "Cronbach, L. J., & Meehl, P. E.",
    "year": 1955,
    "title": "Construct validity in psychological tests",
    "journal": "Psychological Bulletin",
    "volume": "52",
    "issue": "4",
    "pages": "281-302",
    "doi": "10.1037/h0040957",
    "url": "https://doi.org/10.1037/h0040957",
    "type": "Foundational measurement theory",
    "claim": "Construct interpretation requires a program of validity evidence.",
    "limit": "A reference to this framework does not validate a new scale.",
    "access": "APA primary record summary and PubMed metadata inspected. Full-text review not claimed."
  },
  {
    "id": "R13",
    "authors": "Flake, J. K., Pek, J., & Hehman, E.",
    "year": 2017,
    "title": "Construct validation in social and personality research: Current practice and recommendations",
    "journal": "Social Psychological and Personality Science",
    "volume": "8",
    "issue": "4",
    "pages": "370-378",
    "doi": "10.1177/1948550617693063",
    "url": "https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550617693063",
    "type": "Measurement practice review",
    "claim": "Reliability alone does not supply a sufficient construct-validity program.",
    "limit": "No reported reliability or validity result exists for CVT items.",
    "access": "Publisher abstract and metadata inspected."
  },
  {
    "id": "R14",
    "authors": "Edwards, J. R.",
    "year": 1994,
    "title": "The study of congruence in organizational behavior research: Critique and a proposed alternative",
    "journal": "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes",
    "volume": "58",
    "issue": "1",
    "pages": "51-100",
    "doi": "10.1006/obhd.1994.1029",
    "url": "https://doi.org/10.1006/obhd.1994.1029",
    "type": "Methodological critique",
    "claim": "Collapsing distinct constructs into congruence indices can create interpretive problems.",
    "limit": "A statistical alternative does not itself establish a normative fairness benchmark.",
    "access": "Publisher abstract and metadata inspected."
  },
  {
    "id": "R15",
    "authors": "Imai, K., Keele, L., & Tingley, D.",
    "year": 2010,
    "title": "A general approach to causal mediation analysis",
    "journal": "Psychological Methods",
    "volume": "15",
    "issue": "4",
    "pages": "309-334",
    "doi": "10.1037/a0020761",
    "url": "https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/b1683a2b-3e1c-444e-99c0-75f7e7022d6e",
    "type": "Causal methods",
    "claim": "Causal mediation requires explicit identification assumptions and sensitivity analysis.",
    "limit": "Temporal ordering and a significant indirect association alone do not identify mediation.",
    "access": "Author institutional repository abstract, published-paper opening text, and metadata inspected."
  },
  {
    "id": "R16",
    "authors": "Nosek, B. A., Ebersole, C. R., DeHaven, A. C., & Mellor, D. T.",
    "year": 2018,
    "title": "The preregistration revolution",
    "journal": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences",
    "volume": "115",
    "issue": "11",
    "pages": "2600-2606",
    "doi": "10.1073/pnas.1708274114",
    "url": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1708274114",
    "type": "Methodological perspective",
    "claim": "Preregistration distinguishes prospective predictions and analyses from post hoc exploration.",
    "limit": "Registration does not repair a weak design, invalid measurement, or inadequate ethics.",
    "access": "Publisher abstract, authors, and metadata inspected."
  },
  {
    "id": "R17",
    "authors": "Lakens, D.",
    "year": 2022,
    "title": "Sample size justification",
    "journal": "Collabra: Psychology",
    "volume": "8",
    "issue": "1",
    "pages": "Article 33267",
    "doi": "10.1525/collabra.33267",
    "url": "https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.33267",
    "type": "Methodological guidance",
    "claim": "Sample-size plans need an explicit justification tied to the study purpose and precision.",
    "limit": "No sample size or power claim for CVT follows from citing this article.",
    "access": "Publisher article introduction, abstract, and metadata inspected."
  },
  {
    "id": "R18",
    "authors": "National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research",
    "year": 1979,
    "title": "The Belmont Report: Ethical principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research",
    "journal": "U.S. Department of Health and Human Services",
    "volume": "",
    "issue": "",
    "pages": "",
    "doi": "",
    "url": "https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/belmont-report/read-the-belmont-report/index.html",
    "type": "Ethical principles",
    "claim": "Respect for persons, beneficence, and justice guide research protections.",
    "limit": "Ethical principles do not constitute local research approval or establish universal regulatory applicability.",
    "access": "Official report text and date inspected."
  },
  {
    "id": "R19",
    "authors": "Exley, C. L., & Kessler, J. B.",
    "year": 2022,
    "title": "The gender gap in self-promotion",
    "journal": "The Quarterly Journal of Economics",
    "volume": "137",
    "issue": "3",
    "pages": "1345-1381",
    "doi": "10.1093/qje/qjac003",
    "url": "https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/137/3/1345/6513425",
    "type": "Experimental research",
    "claim": "Self-evaluations can differ between equally performing participants in the studied task contexts.",
    "limit": "Task and gender findings do not establish a collective-attribution penalty, stable employee types, or workplace compensation effects.",
    "access": "Publisher indexed abstract and bibliographic record inspected October 19 2026. Direct opening redirected to an inaccessible CDN; full-text appraisal not claimed."
  },
  {
    "id": "R20",
    "authors": "VanEpps, E. M., Hart, E., & Schweitzer, M. E.",
    "year": 2024,
    "title": "Dual-promotion: Bragging better by promoting peers",
    "journal": "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology",
    "volume": "126",
    "issue": "4",
    "pages": "603-623",
    "doi": "10.1037/pspi0000431",
    "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37561455/",
    "type": "Preregistered studies including experiments",
    "claim": "Combining self-promotion with credit to others improved warmth and competence impressions relative to self-promotion alone in the studied settings.",
    "limit": "Impressions and behavioral intentions are not actual workplace pay or promotion. The result does not validate CVT or imply that collective and individual credit are opposites.",
    "access": "PubMed primary article abstract and metadata inspected October 19 2026. Issue year 2024 retained; online first August 10 2023. Full text not appraised."
  },
  {
    "id": "R21",
    "authors": "Ross, M., & Sicoly, F.",
    "year": 1979,
    "title": "Egocentric biases in availability and attribution",
    "journal": "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology",
    "volume": "37",
    "issue": "3",
    "pages": "322-336",
    "doi": "10.1037/0022-3514.37.3.322",
    "url": "https://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/15341_Readings/Negotiation_and_Conflict_Management/Ross_Sicoly_1979_Egocentric_biases.pdf",
    "type": "Five experiments on joint activity",
    "claim": "Availability of personal contributions and responsibility judgments showed egocentric biases in the studied joint activities.",
    "limit": "Memory and responsibility findings do not show intentional appropriation or validate recognition loss during organizational adoption.",
    "access": "University-hosted primary paper header and abstract inspected October 19 2026. Fifteen-page paper accessible; full-text critical appraisal not claimed."
  },
  {
    "id": "R22",
    "authors": "National Information Standards Organization",
    "year": 2022,
    "title": "ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022 CRediT Contributor Roles Taxonomy",
    "journal": "NISO",
    "volume": "",
    "issue": "",
    "pages": "",
    "doi": "10.3789/ansi.niso.z39.104-2022",
    "url": "https://www.niso.org/publications/z39104-2022-credit",
    "type": "Scholarly contributorship standard",
    "claim": "CRediT provides a structured taxonomy for differentiated contributions to scholarly outputs.",
    "limit": "A scholarly metadata standard does not validate an employment assessment, a CVT score, or a documentation intervention.",
    "access": "Official NISO standard record and CRediT role hub inspected October 19 2026. Approval January 14 2022 and publication February 8 2022 confirmed. Full standard not appraised."
  },
  {
    "id": "R23",
    "authors": "Connelly, B. L., Certo, S. T., Ireland, R. D., & Reutzel, C. R.",
    "year": 2011,
    "title": "Signaling theory: A review and assessment",
    "journal": "Journal of Management",
    "volume": "37",
    "issue": "1",
    "pages": "39-67",
    "doi": "10.1177/0149206310388419",
    "url": "https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0149206310388419",
    "type": "Theoretical review",
    "claim": "Signaling theory distinguishes sender communication, receiver interpretation, and information asymmetry.",
    "limit": "Using the word signaling does not establish a formal signaling equilibrium, credibility, or a recognition effect.",
    "access": "Publisher indexed abstract, metadata, and relevant displayed note inspected October 19 2026. Issue year 2011 retained; online first December 20 2010. Full-text appraisal not claimed."
  }
]