Pith Number

pith:WFLJ6MQH

pith:2018:WFLJ6MQHCWWNCU3V3CITCIBVT5

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Allocative efficiency in public research funding:can bibliometrics help?

Alessandro Caprasecca, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Giovanni Abramo

arxiv:1812.07842 v1 · 2018-12-19 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WFLJ6MQHCWWNCU3V3CITCIBVT5}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-17T23:57:55.798009Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b1569f320715acd15375d8913120359f63968de145bebdb783c3c996fdd603ff

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.07842 · arxiv_version: 1812.07842v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.07842 · pith_short_12: WFLJ6MQHCWWN · pith_short_16: WFLJ6MQHCWWNCU3V · pith_short_8: WFLJ6MQH

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/WFLJ6MQHCWWNCU3V3CITCIBVT5 \
  | 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: b1569f320715acd15375d8913120359f63968de145bebdb783c3c996fdd603ff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6f4de223a19460be30225c5bd24e3078f116f37fa6be7ae2d22483aebe9891fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-19T09:45:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8806f93eb6504389b3334659d84ad6f8cf625096eb67b377b06c06f468d1bc1b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.07842",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}