Pith Number

pith:Z4FR5DNV

pith:2011:Z4FR5DNVQJC6WSYTV6GFCKI62Z

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Universality of Performance Indicators based on Citation and Reference Counts

B. S. Kaube, N. Hopkins, T. S. Evans

arxiv:1110.3271 v2 · 2011-10-14 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z4FR5DNVQJC6WSYTV6GFCKI62Z}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T03:42:24.004048Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf0b1e8db58245eb4b13af8c51291ed6724dfaf5c6425665c214bb55845daf2f

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.3271 · arxiv_version: 1110.3271v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.3271 · pith_short_12: Z4FR5DNVQJC6 · pith_short_16: Z4FR5DNVQJC6WSYT · pith_short_8: Z4FR5DNV

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/Z4FR5DNVQJC6WSYTV6GFCKI62Z \
  | 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: cf0b1e8db58245eb4b13af8c51291ed6724dfaf5c6425665c214bb55845daf2f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ffd4b22245e2270760a05f6f5d0aaa975b8b275dfcf8895186cb9c393c500b7d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-14T17:21:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "23c9ffb4e4bd1f71783f950e4a3fde048472b8d3ad8b993987ba42e76bd5fc6d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.3271",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}