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pith:2014:X5YPFX54CVA2VPDNAICP5BMQBC
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The "Tournaments" Metaphor in Citation Impact Studies: Power-Weakness Ratios (PWR) as a Journal Indicator

Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, Wouter De Nooy

arxiv:1411.0906 v3 · 2014-11-04 · cs.DL

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First computed 2026-05-18T01:18:54.494097Z
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Canonical hash

bf70f2dfbc1541aabc6d0204fe8590089e0cab998e3dd607e669934ae9faf82c

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.0906 · arxiv_version: 1411.0906v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.0906 · pith_short_12: X5YPFX54CVA2 · pith_short_16: X5YPFX54CVA2VPDN · pith_short_8: X5YPFX54
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X5YPFX54CVA2VPDNAICP5BMQBC \
  | 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: bf70f2dfbc1541aabc6d0204fe8590089e0cab998e3dd607e669934ae9faf82c
Canonical record JSON
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