Pith Number

pith:JIIA7EF2

pith:2019:JIIA7EF25UXDZE4SVDDFXPE6ZG

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Which are the influential publications in the Web of Science subject categories over a long period of time? CRExplorer software used for big-data analyses in bibliometrics

Andreas Thor, Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild

arxiv:1901.08775 v1 · 2019-01-25 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JIIA7EF25UXDZE4SVDDFXPE6ZG}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-17T23:55:33.153398Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4a100f90baed2e3c9392a8c65bbc9ec98c075c6aaa22e7832d79e0aaa7cc3b0e

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.08775 · arxiv_version: 1901.08775v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.08775 · pith_short_12: JIIA7EF25UXD · pith_short_16: JIIA7EF25UXDZE4S · pith_short_8: JIIA7EF2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JIIA7EF25UXDZE4SVDDFXPE6ZG \
  | 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: 4a100f90baed2e3c9392a8c65bbc9ec98c075c6aaa22e7832d79e0aaa7cc3b0e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "67c10ab203b15be09e1a5d8c1f0fcdecc404c0fa0b2bf664b5efe0d5fb465371",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-25T08:13:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b1488d67e4d26cb0a0320246995fe9fa8301c7d3a6ed240c7deaba820e972bac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1901.08775",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}