Pith Number

pith:JNHZS5LX

pith:2011:JNHZS5LXCGJWMP4QQER4TFZSQE

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Turning the tables in citation analysis one more time: Principles for comparing sets of documents

Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, R\"udiger Mutz, Tobias Opthof

arxiv:1101.3863 v2 · 2011-01-20 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JNHZS5LXCGJWMP4QQER4TFZSQE}

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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	2026-05-18T04:19:43.390157Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b4f9975771193663f908123c99732810b877e1aa805859b76f05da4eb22f813

Aliases

arxiv: 1101.3863 · arxiv_version: 1101.3863v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1101.3863 · pith_short_12: JNHZS5LXCGJW · pith_short_16: JNHZS5LXCGJWMP4Q · pith_short_8: JNHZS5LX

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/JNHZS5LXCGJWMP4QQER4TFZSQE \
  | 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: 4b4f9975771193663f908123c99732810b877e1aa805859b76f05da4eb22f813

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8772d5293eef9c3262be93e277ab05bafcec4b172904330cc86bb21781df9b60",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2011-01-20T10:51:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "885137e3849625e134c8eeb56129149b351e1f947fc527b409df5a3b7463412a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1101.3863",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}