Pith Number

pith:OJFNQNDQ

pith:2026:OJFNQNDQBGSU7YJCMIKSD6XVIG

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Excessive use, ill use and misuse of Bibliometrics

Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar

arxiv:2606.03117 v1 · 2026-06-02 · cs.DL

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OJFNQNDQBGSU7YJCMIKSD6XVIG}

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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	2026-06-03T01:05:32.173500Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

724ad8347009a54fe122621521faf541af22439c04793665bdece30fcea852e8

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.03117 · arxiv_version: 2606.03117v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.03117 · pith_short_12: OJFNQNDQBGSU · pith_short_16: OJFNQNDQBGSU7YJC · pith_short_8: OJFNQNDQ

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/OJFNQNDQBGSU7YJCMIKSD6XVIG \
  | 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: 724ad8347009a54fe122621521faf541af22439c04793665bdece30fcea852e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "391fbb18900066f0e8b455841febcae2694039236521d77cd52da604ef4faf79",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-02T04:00:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "22916c1db7e0a548f84218631cdf20462f104b5b6fe2a825362bddd1b984219f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.03117",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}