Pith Number

pith:5XONM7EA

pith:2020:5XONM7EA6BZEGWFCZ6RDS72W6N

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The Role of Positive and Negative Citations in Scientific Evaluation

Amr Tolba, Feng Xia, Ivan Lee, Xiaomei Bai, Zhaolong Ning

arxiv:2008.03844 v1 · 2020-08-10 · cs.DL · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5XONM7EA6BZEGWFCZ6RDS72W6N}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-07-05T01:25:46.000284Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eddcd67c80f0724358a2cfa2397f56f3740f656bec15fcef8aa6e505f0ff0e5a

Aliases

arxiv: 2008.03844 · arxiv_version: 2008.03844v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.03844 · pith_short_12: 5XONM7EA6BZE · pith_short_16: 5XONM7EA6BZEGWFC · pith_short_8: 5XONM7EA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5XONM7EA6BZEGWFCZ6RDS72W6N \
  | 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: eddcd67c80f0724358a2cfa2397f56f3740f656bec15fcef8aa6e505f0ff0e5a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "326490ebff74993a3e54475072301177cabe2604435bc80eefe2bc205e678bdd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2020-08-10T00:23:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b4a8a8125423ff66bcb2faa11fef76787aab263546b9e2b85d3a22cfcb05ccc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2008.03844",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}