Pith Number

pith:4L5DQVWL

pith:2018:4L5DQVWLAKMMCJV6Z57P5VHQIW

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Over-Optimization of Academic Publishing Metrics: Observing Goodhart's Law in Action

Carlos Guestrin, Michael Fire

arxiv:1809.07841 v1 · 2018-09-20 · cs.SI · cs.CY · physics.soc-ph

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\pithnumber{4L5DQVWLAKMMCJV6Z57P5VHQIW}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:05:11.161507Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e2fa3856cb0298c126becf7efed4f0459bf23dc032cf3723b4c4fb9bd958235d

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.07841 · arxiv_version: 1809.07841v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.07841 · pith_short_12: 4L5DQVWLAKMM · pith_short_16: 4L5DQVWLAKMMCJV6 · pith_short_8: 4L5DQVWL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4L5DQVWLAKMMCJV6Z57P5VHQIW \
  | 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: e2fa3856cb0298c126becf7efed4f0459bf23dc032cf3723b4c4fb9bd958235d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a58c10f7157a7bbb5dfb19c036dafb52de8a56b29c4f1b3ced2a2dd2c6855bd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-20T20:26:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5dd3dd990405371d284f405df511d857c7494829c9365c71834e4bea995bf12c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.07841",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}