Pith Number

pith:5Q7I3BZB

pith:2012:5Q7I3BZB4THYVGTFL6Y4FE3ATE

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Decomposition of the h-index

Francesco Bartolucci

arxiv:1201.6179 v2 · 2012-01-30 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5Q7I3BZB4THYVGTFL6Y4FE3ATE}

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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	2026-05-18T04:00:28.082813Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec3e8d8721e4cf8a9a655fb1c293609917281bc2003dc2f90a4de4b92d4c79a7

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.6179 · arxiv_version: 1201.6179v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.6179 · pith_short_12: 5Q7I3BZB4THY · pith_short_16: 5Q7I3BZB4THYVGTF · pith_short_8: 5Q7I3BZB

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/5Q7I3BZB4THYVGTFL6Y4FE3ATE \
  | 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: ec3e8d8721e4cf8a9a655fb1c293609917281bc2003dc2f90a4de4b92d4c79a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f41a95a0ef013fb5f124b8fdec86cff245c506b0a85a201ffc0d11921bd411ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-30T11:36:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17e11011b32cfe0cf9c9554ab8ae59cfbcfda1cf267fb28efae69fd7dd339ba2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.6179",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}