Pith Number

pith:IM3JAO4E

pith:2016:IM3JAO4E5CAPS62HOPJ23QA74D

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Citations: Indicators of Quality? The Impact Fallacy

Jordan Comins, Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, Sta\v{s}a Milojevi\'c

arxiv:1603.08452 v3 · 2016-03-28 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IM3JAO4E5CAPS62HOPJ23QA74D}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:10:42.718509Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4336903b84e880f97b4773d3adc01fe0e1876b0316b1d9bdbfce2cce50ede05b

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.08452 · arxiv_version: 1603.08452v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.08452 · pith_short_12: IM3JAO4E5CAP · pith_short_16: IM3JAO4E5CAPS62H · pith_short_8: IM3JAO4E

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/IM3JAO4E5CAPS62HOPJ23QA74D \
  | 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: 4336903b84e880f97b4773d3adc01fe0e1876b0316b1d9bdbfce2cce50ede05b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f25648aa898faf29143c831c09c4b0328250e635d2d8a249ffb59b5f4245250",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-28T17:37:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "88e68bb66d3341f038e43c8f7cf5dccfd2ee89fc94a713abc08a833f39f49234"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.08452",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}