Pith Number

pith:757OXVVB

pith:2011:757OXVVBTBF7HQI7D2VBYYXANR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The inconsistency of the h-index

Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck

arxiv:1108.3901 v1 · 2011-08-19 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{757OXVVBTBF7HQI7D2VBYYXANR}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:15:06.098720Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ff7eebd6a1984bf3c11f1eaa1c62e06c7bea2af7bc5966f7ce5b2a4c9b7d7426

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.3901 · arxiv_version: 1108.3901v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.3901 · pith_short_12: 757OXVVBTBF7 · pith_short_16: 757OXVVBTBF7HQI7 · pith_short_8: 757OXVVB

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/757OXVVBTBF7HQI7D2VBYYXANR \
  | 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: ff7eebd6a1984bf3c11f1eaa1c62e06c7bea2af7bc5966f7ce5b2a4c9b7d7426

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "68a05b64df438d1cc3c41380ab940ebc8d8b2862a7e8f8e80502a5b8a32a982a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-19T06:05:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "629e6c688ec5e0fb3d2d9aa7d2ddb8ba124152bb6df9be4f4db95dc6bd5efce0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.3901",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}