Yeah, I can't find anything like that on google scholar. The specific claim I find surprising is that it's possible to make a futures market that is resistant to manipulation at all, even in only one direction. I kinda suspect it's going to come down to a non-standard definition of the word "resistant", but if that's not the case it's bound to be interesting.

I think it was Pirrong, "Manipulation of Cash‐Settled Futures Contracts" https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/209671?seq=1#metadata_i...