Pith Number

pith:4QMACIWX

pith:2017:4QMACIWXDGJYB3ZLFMZ6534SKS

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The effect of publishing a highly cited paper on journal's impact factor: a case study of the Review of Particle Physics

Chao Zuo, Fang Liu, Junwen Zhu, Weishu Liu

arxiv:1712.03666 v1 · 2017-12-11 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4QMACIWXDGJYB3ZLFMZ6534SKS}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:28:20.438279Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4180122d7199380ef2b2b33eeef9254aad9294bee81813be26110ae6411dcdd

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.03666 · arxiv_version: 1712.03666v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.03666 · pith_short_12: 4QMACIWXDGJY · pith_short_16: 4QMACIWXDGJYB3ZL · pith_short_8: 4QMACIWX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4QMACIWXDGJYB3ZLFMZ6534SKS \
  | 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: e4180122d7199380ef2b2b33eeef9254aad9294bee81813be26110ae6411dcdd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a498874942547d6bef39249980043bb80d13e73ef01734b2ad61acd463b459f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-11T07:47:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "651459345d66e0166b2ee4ee22c5bad483f63a8e86292ea98c12e21fb4276ef7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.03666",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}