Pith Number

pith:LCGDF3GP

pith:2018:LCGDF3GP3G3KCL5ZBNG6LAZVB3

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From rankings to funnel plots: the question of accounting for uncertainty when measuring university research performance

Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Giovanni Abramo, Leonardo Grilli

arxiv:1810.12664 v1 · 2018-10-30 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LCGDF3GP3G3KCL5ZBNG6LAZVB3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:56.336979Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

588c32eccfd9b6a12fb90b4de583350ec9f9b9b860d56bb2d8542bbc5417b276

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.12664 · arxiv_version: 1810.12664v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.12664 · pith_short_12: LCGDF3GP3G3K · pith_short_16: LCGDF3GP3G3KCL5Z · pith_short_8: LCGDF3GP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LCGDF3GP3G3KCL5ZBNG6LAZVB3 \
  | 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: 588c32eccfd9b6a12fb90b4de583350ec9f9b9b860d56bb2d8542bbc5417b276

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66f0328833a684f60a80577600c9931d6753586942a8f713425d88979112b23f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-30T11:20:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "18bfc4f8cb31f22fadbd8d56cc82ae5c5c3fe3404263ace08843e2fa1aae9534"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.12664",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}