Pith Number

pith:LSLQZTEX

pith:2018:LSLQZTEXKZ62B24OPDK6SCDTOE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Citations versus journal impact factor as proxy of quality: Could the latter ever be preferable?

Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa, Giovanni Abramo

arxiv:1811.01803 v1 · 2018-11-05 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LSLQZTEXKZ62B24OPDK6SCDTOE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:33.213648Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c970ccc97567da0eb8e78d5e90873713ebc39efc608d730f3e70b1711162633

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.01803 · arxiv_version: 1811.01803v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.01803 · pith_short_12: LSLQZTEXKZ62 · pith_short_16: LSLQZTEXKZ62B24O · pith_short_8: LSLQZTEX

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/LSLQZTEXKZ62B24OPDK6SCDTOE \
  | 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: 5c970ccc97567da0eb8e78d5e90873713ebc39efc608d730f3e70b1711162633

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe0850a49b7b3aa650e08ed30e033b7a0abd7aaa4d4dee54577222c73ffb5b8f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-05T15:40:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5d84577d99d7987fcefbc81d026e33c1d00a9a86d3e7c3bd597bd63f195f053c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.01803",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}