Pith Number

pith:3REWSJ52

pith:2018:3REWSJ52OC2DC6EYTG42NFDJG4

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Bibliometric evaluation of research performance: where do we stand?

Giovanni Abramo

arxiv:1811.01635 v1 · 2018-11-05 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3REWSJ52OC2DC6EYTG42NFDJG4}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:01:33.706365Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc496927ba70b431789899b9a6946937336780842da90de42e9e871778587929

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.01635 · arxiv_version: 1811.01635v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.01635 · pith_short_12: 3REWSJ52OC2D · pith_short_16: 3REWSJ52OC2DC6EY · pith_short_8: 3REWSJ52

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3REWSJ52OC2DC6EYTG42NFDJG4 \
  | 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: dc496927ba70b431789899b9a6946937336780842da90de42e9e871778587929

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3d3ecc1242cca8eaa576b8de62a98d9d42d0cd8519935acb4560742729f20da",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-05T12:12:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d5bcd515f7e9e980bb89d0a0c7c8fcead642623f21d959c217c1288c2afa3860"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.01635",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}