Pith Number

pith:ULN7SFZM

pith:2018:ULN7SFZME2QDSYBSNGF2B44GVR

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On Good and Bad Intentions behind Anomalous Citation Patterns among Journals in Computer Sciences

Dinesh Pradhan, Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Joyita Chakraborty, Subrata Nandi, Tanmoy Chakraborty

arxiv:1807.10804 v1 · 2018-07-27 · cs.DL

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\pithnumber{ULN7SFZME2QDSYBSNGF2B44GVR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:37.357079Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a2dbf9172c26a0396032698ba0f386ac49f96178c425fe86eb1cd3eb1f8abcf6

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.10804 · arxiv_version: 1807.10804v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.10804 · pith_short_12: ULN7SFZME2QD · pith_short_16: ULN7SFZME2QDSYBS · pith_short_8: ULN7SFZM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ULN7SFZME2QDSYBSNGF2B44GVR \
  | 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: a2dbf9172c26a0396032698ba0f386ac49f96178c425fe86eb1cd3eb1f8abcf6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52a8519b5d7b15bae39e005d851d53fff7ee00cc91b1443f3f1e75749d465575",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-27T19:05:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "56dcbf10d797c82a199ec875979f6cfd34b1a917b12e0a716a10c45090729c3b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.10804",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}