Pith Number

pith:FJ5CHSCQ

pith:2013:FJ5CHSCQABDHYB7MHA5EAA3QHI

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The Google Scholar Experiment: how to index false papers and manipulate bibliometric indicators

Daniel Torres-Salinas, Emilio Delgado L\'opez-C\'ozar, Nicol\'as Robinson-Garcia

arxiv:1309.2413 v1 · 2013-09-10 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FJ5CHSCQABDHYB7MHA5EAA3QHI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:32:51.514579Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2a7a23c85000467c07ec383a4003703a39a977cba2d94a8efb7a16483e9985bf

Aliases

arxiv: 1309.2413 · arxiv_version: 1309.2413v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.2413 · pith_short_12: FJ5CHSCQABDH · pith_short_16: FJ5CHSCQABDHYB7M · pith_short_8: FJ5CHSCQ

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/FJ5CHSCQABDHYB7MHA5EAA3QHI \
  | 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: 2a7a23c85000467c07ec383a4003703a39a977cba2d94a8efb7a16483e9985bf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "08a07f75753aaf6c3748174f184cedc3032824f315f2bc7c507d4697b45af08b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2013-09-10T08:33:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3efbed92fbc8cdb1cf9530fca462bd0397e41835c38945015733825983085775"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1309.2413",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}