Pith Number

pith:GIACVYRF

pith:2010:GIACVYRFZK5HPYTZRABE3MXBCF

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Twenty Hirsch index variants and other indicators giving more or less preference to highly cited papers

Michael Schreiber

arxiv:1005.5227 v1 · 2010-05-28 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GIACVYRFZK5HPYTZRABE3MXBCF}

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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	2026-05-18T02:07:06.978269Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

32002ae225caba77e27988024db2e111528bf58b77def01fe78ef037ba3beebf

Aliases

arxiv: 1005.5227 · arxiv_version: 1005.5227v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.5227 · pith_short_12: GIACVYRFZK5H · pith_short_16: GIACVYRFZK5HPYTZ · pith_short_8: GIACVYRF

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/GIACVYRFZK5HPYTZRABE3MXBCF \
  | 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: 32002ae225caba77e27988024db2e111528bf58b77def01fe78ef037ba3beebf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e60703f1f7c539aaffa376a5391db92a9a10dd74422fc14b59d02a5d45732a84",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-05-28T07:08:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "299e6b40617a3afb1ac6a20b85d10c9294c44980580e9d39c92dc2a74d77442d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1005.5227",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}