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@Brommers
So it is. Great minds think alike. Even if mine hasn't got the hang of reading all the way to the end of a post yet.
Of course, the paper only deals with radial stiffness and not lateral stiffness, and while lateral stiffness is undoubtedly A Good Thing, it's debatable whether radial stiffness is. If you had a wheel which was laterally stiff and radially relatively unstiff then you'd have the utopia of all frame designers combining the hallowed lateral stiffness and vertical compliance.
This paper suggests (Fig. 6 for example) that spoke diameter (and so spoke stiffness) has a significant impact on lateral stiffness, which in my view is more important than radial stiffness anyway.