Pith Number

pith:RQCTBFAL

pith:2018:RQCTBFAL2FMTHRSK4MQRGAHMQZ

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The ratio of top scientists to the academic staff as an indicator of the competitive strength of universities

Anastasiia Soldatenkova, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Giovanni Abramo

arxiv:1810.12667 v1 · 2018-10-30 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RQCTBFAL2FMTHRSK4MQRGAHMQZ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:01:56.312805Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c0530940bd15933c64ae3211300ec8654a8a3b53a47e69d5b772a469c662488

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.12667 · arxiv_version: 1810.12667v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.12667 · pith_short_12: RQCTBFAL2FMT · pith_short_16: RQCTBFAL2FMTHRSK · pith_short_8: RQCTBFAL

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RQCTBFAL2FMTHRSK4MQRGAHMQZ \
  | 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: 8c0530940bd15933c64ae3211300ec8654a8a3b53a47e69d5b772a469c662488

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "39f46177b350026fbdffef467e33585c9b54d70ba2953cbc75f481e8d1f30a1b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-30T11:27:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db5b88cf39f93886d1c906388637a7bc7dd9d270c544bed8bdae2f315ca066a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.12667",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}