Pith Number

pith:NWLRI4BQ

pith:2018:NWLRI4BQITZT4AKF6JL2IQ4F2U

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Peer review and citation data in predicting university rankings, a large-scale analysis

David Pride, Petr Knoth

arxiv:1805.08529 v1 · 2018-05-22 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NWLRI4BQITZT4AKF6JL2IQ4F2U}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:15:26.158787Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d9714703044f33e0145f257a44385d536abb941b6e9b03b2f92a5c6e06fd3c3

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.08529 · arxiv_version: 1805.08529v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.08529 · pith_short_12: NWLRI4BQITZT · pith_short_16: NWLRI4BQITZT4AKF · pith_short_8: NWLRI4BQ

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/NWLRI4BQITZT4AKF6JL2IQ4F2U \
  | 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: 6d9714703044f33e0145f257a44385d536abb941b6e9b03b2f92a5c6e06fd3c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc66009205834e9877c3974b41e2a8033212fd71a9b3325a7852415b42b15e50",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-22T12:01:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1208685ab4ac5873126144f9959ac20bb4124e484649f0b29e9076524f5265df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.08529",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}