Pith Number

pith:NNH3ARSF

pith:2019:NNH3ARSFIM2AZQEXXQXN4FF6Q6

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Citations in Software Engineering -- Paper-related, Journal-related, and Author-related Factors

Mika M\"antyl\"a, Vahid Garousi

arxiv:1908.04122 v2 · 2019-08-12 · cs.DL · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NNH3ARSFIM2AZQEXXQXN4FF6Q6}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-04T23:55:13.391188Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b4fb0464543340cc097bc2ede14be879ef6d26c51396777b8fcc0e1000d0249

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.04122 · arxiv_version: 1908.04122v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.04122 · pith_short_12: NNH3ARSFIM2A · pith_short_16: NNH3ARSFIM2AZQEX · pith_short_8: NNH3ARSF

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/NNH3ARSFIM2AZQEXXQXN4FF6Q6 \
  | 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: 6b4fb0464543340cc097bc2ede14be879ef6d26c51396777b8fcc0e1000d0249

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c973b4b565d04e343d49a159137ac612ab3b56d3c878584c89e78032231aa3e8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-12T12:40:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ff4fed3aa367ab43007687cba92a68c22998f465d99cc32b8b0c68f8db395f0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.04122",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}