Pith Number

pith:57BB7KAJ

pith:2018:57BB7KAJ55LAXTQQGRIXBC76UP

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Critical rationalism and the search for standard (field-normalized) indicators in bibliometrics

Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx

arxiv:1805.06153 v2 · 2018-05-16 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{57BB7KAJ55LAXTQQGRIXBC76UP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:41.489899Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

efc21fa809ef560bce103451708bfea3c7972e5cbcae659799a3d7619a3df344

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.06153 · arxiv_version: 1805.06153v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.06153 · pith_short_12: 57BB7KAJ55LA · pith_short_16: 57BB7KAJ55LAXTQQ · pith_short_8: 57BB7KAJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/57BB7KAJ55LAXTQQGRIXBC76UP \
  | 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: efc21fa809ef560bce103451708bfea3c7972e5cbcae659799a3d7619a3df344

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "191a9f8e8ad32b57722f57920190766a82f03cd5fe4d0ebec4c544f89c6b8217",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-16T06:45:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "06b5de6e74c8535541d3a6c90b4ae4e879c81a7dc9d52a4907296cecabed158d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.06153",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}