Pith Number

pith:EPSOBWDZ

pith:2014:EPSOBWDZMENH4YVTCTCGMBT7MT

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A variant of the h-index to measure recent performance

Michael Schreiber

arxiv:1409.3379 v2 · 2014-09-11 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EPSOBWDZMENH4YVTCTCGMBT7MT}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:29:32.005653Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

23e4e0d879611a7e62b314c466067f64edb079c35ef5dd00ab045d5082a008e5

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.3379 · arxiv_version: 1409.3379v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.3379 · pith_short_12: EPSOBWDZMENH · pith_short_16: EPSOBWDZMENH4YVT · pith_short_8: EPSOBWDZ

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/EPSOBWDZMENH4YVTCTCGMBT7MT \
  | 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: 23e4e0d879611a7e62b314c466067f64edb079c35ef5dd00ab045d5082a008e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b49e9c496502171228254ad424f1af6772cb3d61777f0f988cbc3b17b11d0a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-11T10:46:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "00ea918d38e7dc4ce85dc82a2822a3d449b60d67d2c9db084a1b76e850170671"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.3379",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}