Pith Number

pith:N4M4TICF

pith:2018:N4M4TICFEWYQHL3NJWHS25JE57

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Does the Web of Science Accurately Represent Chinese Scientific Performance?

Charles-Antoine Julien, Fei Shu, Vincent Lariviere

arxiv:1812.03620 v1 · 2018-12-10 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N4M4TICFEWYQHL3NJWHS25JE57}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:44.317187Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f19c9a04525b103af6d4d8f2d7524efd5de4b1b86edbc52bd52660b33e13bd2

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.03620 · arxiv_version: 1812.03620v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.03620 · pith_short_12: N4M4TICFEWYQ · pith_short_16: N4M4TICFEWYQHL3N · pith_short_8: N4M4TICF

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/N4M4TICFEWYQHL3NJWHS25JE57 \
  | 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: 6f19c9a04525b103af6d4d8f2d7524efd5de4b1b86edbc52bd52660b33e13bd2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "debb36172f516e7c00663f171d58ff110bc39d51834509ff36e78c2b5d36992c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-10T04:48:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c363a97a5a8bdaaa2e9674369d0433890a8f36b7687b45ecdb5d566f95ba7a6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.03620",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}