Pith Number

pith:XJWJ4AI2

pith:2018:XJWJ4AI2RB3MTNX4KQYXUB6NOV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Journal Impact Factor: A brief history, critique, and discussion of adverse effects

Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Vincent Lariviere

arxiv:1801.08992 v2 · 2018-01-26 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XJWJ4AI2RB3MTNX4KQYXUB6NOV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:22:02.308161Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba6c9e011a8876c9b6fc54317a07cd7561d0b105c723b5647af80ed91f905b8e

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.08992 · arxiv_version: 1801.08992v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.08992 · pith_short_12: XJWJ4AI2RB3M · pith_short_16: XJWJ4AI2RB3MTNX4 · pith_short_8: XJWJ4AI2

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/XJWJ4AI2RB3MTNX4KQYXUB6NOV \
  | 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: ba6c9e011a8876c9b6fc54317a07cd7561d0b105c723b5647af80ed91f905b8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5d6fd92df451e6de8a0b0ff5a94f12e5888e2c2d1698d8c94822cde13a47c29",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-26T22:12:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ed3a463ee08f286b6cd0a5118210b89643d19785e50ab28d1dd9a83ca072df7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.08992",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}