Pith Number

pith:UEXNEOAE

pith:2017:UEXNEOAE4LWYTA2TQM554GZNND

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On the "persistency" of scientific publications: introducing an h-index for journals

Roberto Piazza

arxiv:1705.09390 v1 · 2017-05-23 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UEXNEOAE4LWYTA2TQM554GZNND}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:43:38.825809Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a12ed23804e2ed898353833bde1b2d68f4b0deaed27c8972ce0dc7774cbf4a14

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.09390 · arxiv_version: 1705.09390v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.09390 · pith_short_12: UEXNEOAE4LWY · pith_short_16: UEXNEOAE4LWYTA2T · pith_short_8: UEXNEOAE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UEXNEOAE4LWYTA2TQM554GZNND \
  | 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: a12ed23804e2ed898353833bde1b2d68f4b0deaed27c8972ce0dc7774cbf4a14

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8cc5ef775de71e9a093847eaef45014d48f562b0ee77666bab048d83002ccffb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-23T07:05:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "80ce422d5773b58dec7e435c8097fd7826129abf43a3b169f1d2ab23a4bfeb90"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.09390",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}