Pith Number

pith:CQMQ46JO

pith:2010:CQMQ46JOS4JUSLVCKKOQS3IYF3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Remaining problems with the "New Crown Indicator" (MNCS) of the CWTS

Loet Leydesdorff, Tobias Opthof

arxiv:1010.2379 v3 · 2010-10-12 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CQMQ46JOS4JUSLVCKKOQS3IYF3}

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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	2026-05-18T04:39:19.254993Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

14190e792e9713492ea2529d096d182efa27ef2d89861e980008d7ad1af25eb7

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.2379 · arxiv_version: 1010.2379v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.2379 · pith_short_12: CQMQ46JOS4JU · pith_short_16: CQMQ46JOS4JUSLVC · pith_short_8: CQMQ46JO

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/CQMQ46JOS4JUSLVCKKOQS3IYF3 \
  | 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: 14190e792e9713492ea2529d096d182efa27ef2d89861e980008d7ad1af25eb7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dfff919164f36c22c93d92189b2616f5bb0509815e29eefe579be42f3073b11d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-12T13:04:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6dc0a7c5512cf6078cda2f08e020e29febf233190ff7b5c13dd1c1dd97e7579a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.2379",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}