Pith Number

pith:RZLYBAL2

pith:2016:RZLYBAL2WWDIHEROHXJULMAA67

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Professional and Citizen Bibliometrics: Complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators

Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, Paul Wouters

arxiv:1609.04793 v3 · 2016-09-15 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RZLYBAL2WWDIHEROHXJULMAA67}

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:02.227188Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e5780817ab58683922e3dd345b000f7c88af8735e9a5c29dca8011bff7343c3

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.04793 · arxiv_version: 1609.04793v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.04793 · pith_short_12: RZLYBAL2WWDI · pith_short_16: RZLYBAL2WWDIHERO · pith_short_8: RZLYBAL2

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/RZLYBAL2WWDIHEROHXJULMAA67 \
  | 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: 8e5780817ab58683922e3dd345b000f7c88af8735e9a5c29dca8011bff7343c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9a6efc5e45dd5fa7988cff1c0b87d7304c0ab1785ce7ce58b947107a90b926e8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-15T19:33:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85012af58c006a068e60c4a1a2f095e921a4a7b7699ed5c7538b20ae19100f9f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.04793",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}