Pith Number

pith:HLCBMPKA

pith:2018:HLCBMPKAYAO5APZ3EDSPZJ5RZ4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Integrated Impact Indicator (I3) Revisited: A Non-Parametric Alternative to the Journal Impact Factor

Jonathan Adams, Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann

arxiv:1812.03448 v2 · 2018-12-09 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HLCBMPKAYAO5APZ3EDSPZJ5RZ4}

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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	2026-05-17T23:51:05.211934Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3ac4163d40c01dd03f3b20e4fca7b1cf1e626627613aeb9f7151b90fc486d881

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.03448 · arxiv_version: 1812.03448v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.03448 · pith_short_12: HLCBMPKAYAO5 · pith_short_16: HLCBMPKAYAO5APZ3 · pith_short_8: HLCBMPKA

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/HLCBMPKAYAO5APZ3EDSPZJ5RZ4 \
  | 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: 3ac4163d40c01dd03f3b20e4fca7b1cf1e626627613aeb9f7151b90fc486d881

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b076720861c279f485450f991d9ae13e3c6174cb7eb54828060003cabd4d2976",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-09T08:50:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6da54cdd2e2909fffc9855dc08b792070ca378964b62aaf4c866b58f3b7eed0e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.03448",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}