Pith Number

pith:3APHECMG

pith:2014:3APHECMGTUP4A3IM2QBOQZX6YE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How well developed are altmetrics? A cross-disciplinary analysis of the presence of 'alternative metrics' in scientific publications

Paul Wouters, Rodrigo Costas, Zohreh Zahedi

arxiv:1404.1301 v1 · 2014-02-21 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3APHECMGTUP4A3IM2QBOQZX6YE}

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4 Citations open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:54:47.802233Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d81e7209869d1fc06d0cd402e866fec1100449109ce546bb05097dd087787ecf

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.1301 · arxiv_version: 1404.1301v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.1301 · pith_short_12: 3APHECMGTUP4 · pith_short_16: 3APHECMGTUP4A3IM · pith_short_8: 3APHECMG

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3APHECMGTUP4A3IM2QBOQZX6YE \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d81e7209869d1fc06d0cd402e866fec1100449109ce546bb05097dd087787ecf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "35d6b4afdcc8558f4ff06591f651a27b05e5eec36cc48f785612e224c4c75f64",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-21T10:01:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "577da73fdfbe08c6760f739b16c5a8d879a17f168d8188d1e4247344f810c0f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.1301",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}