Pith Number

pith:AOHINJMX

pith:2019:AOHINJMXMHXHLN6IGDDWMEXRM4

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Inferring the causal effect of journals on citations

V.A. Traag

arxiv:1912.08648 v2 · 2019-12-18 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AOHINJMXMHXHLN6IGDDWMEXRM4}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T02:26:26.100881Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

038e86a59761ee75b7c830c76612f167015603b0f3c7a143b436300d9f2f08af

Aliases

arxiv: 1912.08648 · arxiv_version: 1912.08648v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1912.08648 · pith_short_12: AOHINJMXMHXH · pith_short_16: AOHINJMXMHXHLN6I · pith_short_8: AOHINJMX

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/AOHINJMXMHXHLN6IGDDWMEXRM4 \
  | 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: 038e86a59761ee75b7c830c76612f167015603b0f3c7a143b436300d9f2f08af

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2364bc6608756a46fcf3d5f593ad7666110c9e8116d313e9e9268298f3a50c5f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2019-12-18T14:55:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab0300a33804db65781fdb8b415cd2369206057b59c36ea6b4bc84461b4773ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1912.08648",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}