Pith Number

pith:LGCXFWLJ

pith:2020:LGCXFWLJLSBSSHYJ44BOHWAKXM

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Unbiased evaluation of ranking metrics reveals consistent performance in science and technology citation data

Linyuan L\"u, Manuel Sebastian Mariani, Mat\'u\v{s} Medo, Shuqi Xu

arxiv:2001.05414 v1 · 2020-01-15 · cs.SI · cs.DL · cs.IR · physics.data-an

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LGCXFWLJLSBSSHYJ44BOHWAKXM}

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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	2026-07-05T01:17:25.947009Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

598572d9695c83291f09e702e3d80abb318dce8e6ba387a5642392077cc11418

Aliases

arxiv: 2001.05414 · arxiv_version: 2001.05414v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2001.05414 · pith_short_12: LGCXFWLJLSBS · pith_short_16: LGCXFWLJLSBSSHYJ · pith_short_8: LGCXFWLJ

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/LGCXFWLJLSBSSHYJ44BOHWAKXM \
  | 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: 598572d9695c83291f09e702e3d80abb318dce8e6ba387a5642392077cc11418

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c48d65d3b37c2af88750656fcd6564b92d57fff8f6a373260eba1ccbfa900b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "cs.IR",
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2020-01-15T16:34:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "978357d3f20654882043dfbeccb39c388eea220d466c42f11faf60b141c385f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2001.05414",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}