Pith Number

pith:TUJ4MB7C

pith:2018:TUJ4MB7CIDLDVZQZSKKJK4XTZ4

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How do you define and measure research productivity?

Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Giovanni Abramo

arxiv:1810.12830 v1 · 2018-10-30 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TUJ4MB7CIDLDVZQZSKKJK4XTZ4}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:54.033678Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9d13c607e240d63ae61992949572f3cf007203dc5d5d2724dbf08b490b2dbb94

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.12830 · arxiv_version: 1810.12830v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.12830 · pith_short_12: TUJ4MB7CIDLD · pith_short_16: TUJ4MB7CIDLDVZQZ · pith_short_8: TUJ4MB7C

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/TUJ4MB7CIDLDVZQZSKKJK4XTZ4 \
  | 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: 9d13c607e240d63ae61992949572f3cf007203dc5d5d2724dbf08b490b2dbb94

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8400b974a38c7def057925b7898795216f9f3eb2a8342840e4ddbc8e5d9315b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-30T15:58:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9bfacc5c17eabaa4802bea24a45099f268bf2196cad59bd060f1dc89a8b5de0f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.12830",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}