Pith Number

pith:AL77Q255

pith:2015:AL77Q255BB27COU634SLDMAEZS

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Do they agree? Bibliometric evaluation vs informed peer review in the Italian research assessment exercise

Alberto Baccini, Giuseppe De Nicolao

arxiv:1505.00115 v2 · 2015-05-01 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AL77Q255BB27COU634SLDMAEZS}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:18:23.417031Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

02fff86bbd0875f13a9edf24b1b004ccab91e7cdb65d3724f50152ad1bae240b

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.00115 · arxiv_version: 1505.00115v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.00115 · pith_short_12: AL77Q255BB27 · pith_short_16: AL77Q255BB27COU6 · pith_short_8: AL77Q255

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AL77Q255BB27COU634SLDMAEZS \
  | 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: 02fff86bbd0875f13a9edf24b1b004ccab91e7cdb65d3724f50152ad1bae240b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f5cc4bd37410e6f33c1e63a19561a5426d028b80b96581a4579f1a3564b4c0e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph",
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-01T08:17:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "696e2cd13d1f59e0218f0398937986376d3e1b9e0839aad54765e34ee5b7ea31"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.00115",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}