Pith Number

pith:X77TVT3V

pith:2017:X77TVT3VTJ5NJF4IXDR6QZJZTL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A scientists' view of scientometrics: Not everything that counts can be counted

B. Berche, O. Mryglod, R. Kenna

arxiv:1703.10407 v1 · 2017-03-30 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X77TVT3VTJ5NJF4IXDR6QZJZTL}

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:34.782926Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bfff3acf759a7ad49788b8e3e865399af047e6d0cc00f475a16e156d1926040d

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.10407 · arxiv_version: 1703.10407v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.10407 · pith_short_12: X77TVT3VTJ5N · pith_short_16: X77TVT3VTJ5NJF4I · pith_short_8: X77TVT3V

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/X77TVT3VTJ5NJF4IXDR6QZJZTL \
  | 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: bfff3acf759a7ad49788b8e3e865399af047e6d0cc00f475a16e156d1926040d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e1d61d746988d2b952801dba3d009853255be80a1b8d44a28289007235366b46",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-30T11:08:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "465e37f0c0c4571a5cfecd09bba31e9cc7debd5cd90ad53cd929d010faa3d038"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.10407",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}