Pith Number

pith:WJR2F5SX

pith:2014:WJR2F5SXAF4B4Z5KE4W7FFU4RH

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On the causes of subject-specific citation rates in Web of Science

Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx

arxiv:1408.5893 v1 · 2014-08-25 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WJR2F5SXAF4B4Z5KE4W7FFU4RH}

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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	2026-05-18T02:44:15.904700Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b263a2f65701781e67aa272df2969c89ef2916164c2589915fc72e4d5e41038a

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.5893 · arxiv_version: 1408.5893v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.5893 · pith_short_12: WJR2F5SXAF4B · pith_short_16: WJR2F5SXAF4B4Z5K · pith_short_8: WJR2F5SX

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/WJR2F5SXAF4B4Z5KE4W7FFU4RH \
  | 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: b263a2f65701781e67aa272df2969c89ef2916164c2589915fc72e4d5e41038a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3ca93c46a9dd59699f0303ec6b13db7b970f406e1ba1a179a7a834173f2abd5c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-25T12:28:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82b009e4406865f31198889434e56d22904e8c9937607b4828ca59e566ec8303"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.5893",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}