Pith Number

pith:EKTTHSQS

pith:2015:EKTTHSQSIZVJORXL6WZJJONF2F

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Relative Citation Ratio (RCR): An empirical attempt to study a new field-normalized bibliometric indicator

Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild

arxiv:1511.08088 v5 · 2015-11-25 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EKTTHSQSIZVJORXL6WZJJONF2F}

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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	2026-05-18T01:11:32.010187Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

22a733ca12466a9746ebf5b294b9a5d174d33453a50286fb1bf0d48bc95f7295

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.08088 · arxiv_version: 1511.08088v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.08088 · pith_short_12: EKTTHSQSIZVJ · pith_short_16: EKTTHSQSIZVJORXL · pith_short_8: EKTTHSQS

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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/EKTTHSQSIZVJORXL6WZJJONF2F \
  | 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: 22a733ca12466a9746ebf5b294b9a5d174d33453a50286fb1bf0d48bc95f7295

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "69f7de111d876b53b6ffa02a0847b4359bec03130e0c39800e35d4c2c60205ea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-25T15:24:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "530d5368c212c6594dced78e7d9d1a1d113479b04c4ae720481e7ec60b6678c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.08088",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}