Pith Number

pith:MRY2J35U

pith:2026:MRY2J35UJGZDQPAHMPKXHALY74

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The $\alpha$-Index: A Penalized Authorship-Integrity Framework for Position-Weighted Scientific Contribution

Athanasios Angelakis

arxiv:2606.22309 v1 · 2026-06-21 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MRY2J35UJGZDQPAHMPKXHALY74}

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First computed	2026-06-23T02:13:34.562837Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6471a4efb449b2383c0763d5738178ff0b57d413e1337b7e7b244c7aefa1eb8e

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.22309 · arxiv_version: 2606.22309v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.22309 · pith_short_12: MRY2J35UJGZD · pith_short_16: MRY2J35UJGZDQPAH · pith_short_8: MRY2J35U

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MRY2J35UJGZDQPAHMPKXHALY74 \
  | 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: 6471a4efb449b2383c0763d5738178ff0b57d413e1337b7e7b244c7aefa1eb8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8f9dee50e795350e671404ab2aca29bff1929a0d14c15bd0f78c1a58cc39e01c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-21T02:32:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa9255761a8b37a26dfaca77efde9b038db2b83412f40f556bdbe1e247612cfb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.22309",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}