Pith Number

pith:LKGS34JE

pith:2023:LKGS34JE4GLEN5RTWGOWUV4H4B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Judging a book by its cover: how much of REF `research quality' is really `journal prestige'?

David Antony Selby, David Firth

arxiv:2306.13367 v1 · 2023-06-23 · stat.ME · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LKGS34JE4GLEN5RTWGOWUV4H4B}

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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	2026-07-05T06:24:04.654476Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5a8d2df124e19646f633b19d6a5787e069e269067d4b2eec150affe14addee28

Aliases

arxiv: 2306.13367 · arxiv_version: 2306.13367v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.13367 · pith_short_12: LKGS34JE4GLE · pith_short_16: LKGS34JE4GLEN5RT · pith_short_8: LKGS34JE

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/LKGS34JE4GLEN5RTWGOWUV4H4B \
  | 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: 5a8d2df124e19646f633b19d6a5787e069e269067d4b2eec150affe14addee28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d5b907ad6b9e0f37137b2bfc103de5349082f4640313b4ff38309afc7ef523a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2023-06-23T08:41:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c562de8b32618cceb3d4bb3722c3ff1c687bd593715e374d6a0dfc837bd26d6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2306.13367",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}