Pith Number

pith:LXSSDQQZ

pith:2018:LXSSDQQZAUDAZCP3D36JSZGEUR

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National peer-review research assessment exercises for the hard sciences can be a complete waste of money: the Italian case

Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero

arxiv:1810.13274 v1 · 2018-10-31 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LXSSDQQZAUDAZCP3D36JSZGEUR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:49.827120Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5de521c21905060c89fb1efc9964c4a47e2266ea14865982d62da966f6618e82

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.13274 · arxiv_version: 1810.13274v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.13274 · pith_short_12: LXSSDQQZAUDA · pith_short_16: LXSSDQQZAUDAZCP3 · pith_short_8: LXSSDQQZ

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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/LXSSDQQZAUDAZCP3D36JSZGEUR \
  | 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: 5de521c21905060c89fb1efc9964c4a47e2266ea14865982d62da966f6618e82

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "22a3d9e97c18470df29dec644223b7c572a76340fca60fe2e33abef51c9b1271",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-31T13:27:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc6890ff8e354514710dd5e1dd55312f7712f415bb93b38bb3715bcae27e3d7e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.13274",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}