Pith Number

pith:3ZFTM5B6

pith:2012:3ZFTM5B6YIMKGVZWZX67BC7VE2

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Statistical inference on the h-index with an application to top-scientist performance

Alberto Baccini, Luca Pratelli, Lucio Barabesi, Marzia Marcheselli

arxiv:1205.4418 v1 · 2012-05-20 · stat.AP · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3ZFTM5B6YIMKGVZWZX67BC7VE2}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:46:31.603306Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

de4b36743ec218a35736cdfdf08bf526bfa80caa005297e207ec1745d3132f44

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.4418 · arxiv_version: 1205.4418v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.4418 · pith_short_12: 3ZFTM5B6YIMK · pith_short_16: 3ZFTM5B6YIMKGVZW · pith_short_8: 3ZFTM5B6

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/3ZFTM5B6YIMKGVZWZX67BC7VE2 \
  | 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: de4b36743ec218a35736cdfdf08bf526bfa80caa005297e207ec1745d3132f44

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "18ea83f406e0d1ac11fb0f67e4266a11010962b44f1b8b5e34cf6972df4b58cd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-20T13:30:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d870c727395cb8d4c63a37e2e460e55440f232a6935ce31484cbee7e9d275ea8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.4418",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}