Pith Number

pith:X2BVALEG

pith:2017:X2BVALEGLYNC3XCS4G6C4NYRBB

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Publish or impoverish: An investigation of the monetary reward system of science in China (1999-2016)

Bikun Chen, Fei Shu, Wei Quan

arxiv:1707.01162 v1 · 2017-07-04 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X2BVALEGLYNC3XCS4G6C4NYRBB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:28.794014Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be83502c865e1a2ddc52e1bc2e3711085a2262d972deda940c22a11f7624f2b3

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.01162 · arxiv_version: 1707.01162v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.01162 · pith_short_12: X2BVALEGLYNC · pith_short_16: X2BVALEGLYNC3XCS · pith_short_8: X2BVALEG

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X2BVALEGLYNC3XCS4G6C4NYRBB \
  | 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: be83502c865e1a2ddc52e1bc2e3711085a2262d972deda940c22a11f7624f2b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "806ecf2b388e1d8b284bb06f6e155283ddc298ab6f1a63715af47948eee6827c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-04T21:46:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bcbb3c3da8227c869aecc6030acab298dcae442df2f141f18d3bcb90f5d95f8a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.01162",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}