Pith Number

pith:C56WLZ2Z

pith:2018:C56WLZ2ZU6PN4T3YKSMY7KE5VQ

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The dangers of performance-based research funding in non-competitive higher education systems

Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero

arxiv:1811.01769 v1 · 2018-11-05 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C56WLZ2ZU6PN4T3YKSMY7KE5VQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:33.314562Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

177d65e759a79ede4f7854998fa89dac1c6295e2244dc33915253e29886539c7

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.01769 · arxiv_version: 1811.01769v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.01769 · pith_short_12: C56WLZ2ZU6PN · pith_short_16: C56WLZ2ZU6PN4T3Y · pith_short_8: C56WLZ2Z

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C56WLZ2ZU6PN4T3YKSMY7KE5VQ \
  | 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: 177d65e759a79ede4f7854998fa89dac1c6295e2244dc33915253e29886539c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ff48817a8f082c9cdd54f3c5ab26366c77d0ca99608ed2e3990d5e1abb493e21",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-05T15:03:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f5e9647d52c9fed0067f4cb534d699761ebd88473da331e0293ce1f985eb121d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.01769",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}