Pith Number

pith:M6DDBEV7

pith:2007:M6DDBEV7N5QRNJLKBB33KYVPE5

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A quantitative analysis of measures of quality in science

A. D. Jackson, B. E. Lautrup, S. Lehmann

arxiv:physics/0701311 v1 · 2007-01-27 · physics.soc-ph · physics.data-an

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M6DDBEV7N5QRNJLKBB33KYVPE5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:14:27.740136Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

67863092bf6f6116a56a0877b562af2755c8bd3ff2f298a47b25815b1299f951

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0701311 · arxiv_version: physics/0701311v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0701311 · pith_short_12: M6DDBEV7N5QR · pith_short_16: M6DDBEV7N5QRNJLK · pith_short_8: M6DDBEV7

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/M6DDBEV7N5QRNJLKBB33KYVPE5 \
  | 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: 67863092bf6f6116a56a0877b562af2755c8bd3ff2f298a47b25815b1299f951

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "afc6de9b384d13d271dd120a182b1dadf368c9d978f101124ca3d37ddc3c534f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-01-27T16:40:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cda02a82ed9c16829da20fbb654515fe408aa3de473baa2013b02f16e5ccdf8d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0701311",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}