Pith Number

pith:FZRICWIJ

pith:2012:FZRICWIJBSI63EC7HFYNUUXWFV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The weakening relationship between the Impact Factor and papers' citations in the digital age

George A. Lozano, Vincent Lariviere, Yves Gingras

arxiv:1205.4328 v1 · 2012-05-19 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FZRICWIJBSI63EC7HFYNUUXWFV}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:55:13.434524Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2e628159090c91ed905f3970da52f62d41fda7685c843de4898687fc5971ee62

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.4328 · arxiv_version: 1205.4328v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.4328 · pith_short_12: FZRICWIJBSI6 · pith_short_16: FZRICWIJBSI63EC7 · pith_short_8: FZRICWIJ

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/FZRICWIJBSI63EC7HFYNUUXWFV \
  | 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: 2e628159090c91ed905f3970da52f62d41fda7685c843de4898687fc5971ee62

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "18643785f418825969c8314d750a3542e5a3520e3bfaba5fab2e85176b7b3967",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-19T14:03:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f9409c0b92a3a7e96c318deb277aea1b3d9a6400a03d9ff7eeca5a35ab2709dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.4328",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}