Pith Number

pith:X5YPFX54

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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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X5YPFX54CVA2VPDNAICP5BMQBC}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:18:54.494097Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

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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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

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

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "57f70de0aba07b0e0622af1af881fd045c48724ab6fe48a9acbc6230d1918490",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-04T13:40:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de0a02a83d1b2b9df3c3b97d69be815a27d34b0559e6cca1f98d4ecb192e52ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.0906",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}