Pith Number

pith:MCY7VRHQ

pith:2017:MCY7VRHQH5YMXYJW3FAQLTHJU2

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Normalization of zero-inflated data: An empirical analysis of a new indicator family and its use with altmetrics data

Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild

arxiv:1712.02228 v3 · 2017-12-06 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MCY7VRHQH5YMXYJW3FAQLTHJU2}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:59.339867Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

60b1fac4f03f70cbe136d94105cce9a6b22b2594ba142f8c598ba6c79f82d8ec

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.02228 · arxiv_version: 1712.02228v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.02228 · pith_short_12: MCY7VRHQH5YM · pith_short_16: MCY7VRHQH5YMXYJW · pith_short_8: MCY7VRHQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MCY7VRHQH5YMXYJW3FAQLTHJU2 \
  | 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: 60b1fac4f03f70cbe136d94105cce9a6b22b2594ba142f8c598ba6c79f82d8ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e5e755991472cfd9647756967f1c398919bec6863d3e3f481a69f90505522ed2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-06T15:21:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6408ff09bc2a01bae49722a2a45df903a1bbd2a2a49b7364e9aaf6a3f1a82f5f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.02228",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}