Pith Number

pith:DT4PORNT

pith:2016:DT4PORNTIVZIAKZEAAGZKN6HL7

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Conceptual difficulties in the use of statistical inference in citation analysis

Ludo Waltman

arxiv:1612.03285 v1 · 2016-12-10 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DT4PORNTIVZIAKZEAAGZKN6HL7}

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:55:19.721882Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1cf8f745b34572802b24000d9537c75fe5eb30708c92475c390f9476ef67a318

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.03285 · arxiv_version: 1612.03285v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.03285 · pith_short_12: DT4PORNTIVZI · pith_short_16: DT4PORNTIVZIAKZE · pith_short_8: DT4PORNT

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/DT4PORNTIVZIAKZEAAGZKN6HL7 \
  | 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: 1cf8f745b34572802b24000d9537c75fe5eb30708c92475c390f9476ef67a318

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5396c29acc9c84098e8df834564b42d5ab68b7b1d413c77c51b5989d19e37972",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-10T12:45:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5d243ffd382512968263d9168fa047b0f93ac2a4dd96a092292768074115ff23"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.03285",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}