Pith Number

pith:EPN5ZGBW

pith:2012:EPN5ZGBW3AIMAQW2QLLZ7EGGFQ

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An empirical study to order citation statistics between subject fields

J. Martin van Zyl, Sean van der Merwe

arxiv:1210.2246 v3 · 2012-10-08 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EPN5ZGBW3AIMAQW2QLLZ7EGGFQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:39.595190Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

23dbdc9836d810c042da82d79f90c62c1167e17a4fd9e2d032504a1732488cb1

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.2246 · arxiv_version: 1210.2246v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.2246 · pith_short_12: EPN5ZGBW3AIM · pith_short_16: EPN5ZGBW3AIMAQW2 · pith_short_8: EPN5ZGBW

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/EPN5ZGBW3AIMAQW2QLLZ7EGGFQ \
  | 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: 23dbdc9836d810c042da82d79f90c62c1167e17a4fd9e2d032504a1732488cb1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8163f7bb517f15d97fa15f3fc99e2ed00e3ff47a973f964500179cf9f12474bc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-08T11:44:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3dd3929009ddb52f1ff36b2cc2bc306c3cf4360b80af4460b4f4264919cfbcce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.2246",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}