Pith Number

pith:UKHXCSPH

pith:2013:UKHXCSPHQU6XKRO2FTZJRO5VXK

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A Case Study of the Arbitrariness of the h-Index and the Highly-Cited-Publications Indicator

Michael Schreiber

arxiv:1302.6582 v1 · 2013-02-26 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UKHXCSPHQU6XKRO2FTZJRO5VXK}

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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	2026-05-18T03:32:19.398151Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a28f7149e7853d7545da2cf298bbb5baa09437864657ecaa91bc3464d7579a28

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.6582 · arxiv_version: 1302.6582v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.6582 · pith_short_12: UKHXCSPHQU6X · pith_short_16: UKHXCSPHQU6XKRO2 · pith_short_8: UKHXCSPH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UKHXCSPHQU6XKRO2FTZJRO5VXK \
  | 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: a28f7149e7853d7545da2cf298bbb5baa09437864657ecaa91bc3464d7579a28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2b8b71ca150da00d349cfde2d3c83752e835213742bdfc43c653163988183b30",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-26T11:49:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c381fcd02dc5f7961cf4cca1c5db4188942f8de7b4f070f1311320b7f60bd3ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.6582",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}