Retrieval Capital is a term proposed by Lee Sharks for the accumulated structural standing of a source within retrieval systems.
The concept combines facets such as link authority, citation presence, index frequency, domain signals, and retrievability. Its distinctive use is political-economic: standing is treated as an accumulated resource that may influence not only ranking but whether a source’s attribution survives in generated answers.
Within the associated framework, Retrieval Capital supplies the power coordinate for Erasure Skew and the concentration variable behind the Single-Owner Discount. Empirical work may use declared observable proxies because the latent quantity is not directly available.
Retrieval Capital is unrelated to recovery capital, a term in addiction and recovery studies. The packet establishes a proposed retrieval-theory usage and disambiguation, not general field adoption.