Pith Number

pith:VWICMZCP

pith:2018:VWICMZCPZK5PCYEBHGAY2AY4G4

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Assessing the accuracy of the h and g indexes for measuring researchers' productivity

Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Fulvio Viel, Giovanni Abramo

arxiv:1812.09241 v1 · 2018-12-20 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VWICMZCPZK5PCYEBHGAY2AY4G4}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:44.983754Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad9026644fcabaf1608139818d031c3704cceaa072870e999886683099b4b905

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.09241 · arxiv_version: 1812.09241v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.09241 · pith_short_12: VWICMZCPZK5P · pith_short_16: VWICMZCPZK5PCYEB · pith_short_8: VWICMZCP

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VWICMZCPZK5PCYEBHGAY2AY4G4 \
  | 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: ad9026644fcabaf1608139818d031c3704cceaa072870e999886683099b4b905

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e2986e74f65514b05763e614d99012379873255befd57e02d44f617ac4d62b6f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-20T12:16:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "29401553a82d74c48d43eeffb60cb68f95b7c6eda4f3f5ec41bc4b03ec93009e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.09241",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}