Pith Number

pith:45WF3VMS

pith:2017:45WF3VMSHEU7FOETRFTUXHS47P

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Empirical Bayes approaches to PageRank type algorithms for rating scientific journals

Gilles Celeux, Jean-Louis Foulley, Julie Josse

arxiv:1707.09508 v2 · 2017-07-29 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{45WF3VMSHEU7FOETRFTUXHS47P}

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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	2026-05-18T00:25:17.888974Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e76c5dd5923929f2b89389674b9e5cfbefaf78968ff5cd6362e9ce0a5ef078d7

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.09508 · arxiv_version: 1707.09508v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.09508 · pith_short_12: 45WF3VMSHEU7 · pith_short_16: 45WF3VMSHEU7FOET · pith_short_8: 45WF3VMS

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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/45WF3VMSHEU7FOETRFTUXHS47P \
  | 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: e76c5dd5923929f2b89389674b9e5cfbefaf78968ff5cd6362e9ce0a5ef078d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cec2e64f534eb795a57587b58e05a90a309ba79ad086e273447548caebc8eeb2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-29T12:53:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f19b6c3c41a2196fc7d9b97073b88672f918134675094b0d6bdfbe7bfd28adf7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.09508",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}