Pith Number

pith:TWQWQ2SV

pith:2013:TWQWQ2SVKLY2NHBR242CV4WOBN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Are elite journals declining?

George A. Lozano, Vincent Lariviere, Yves Gingras

arxiv:1304.6460 v1 · 2013-04-24 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TWQWQ2SVKLY2NHBR242CV4WOBN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T03:27:13.067249Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9da1686a5552f1a69c31d7342af2ce0b4a52736c904b0a8f90f15d2487ff54c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.6460 · arxiv_version: 1304.6460v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.6460 · pith_short_12: TWQWQ2SVKLY2 · pith_short_16: TWQWQ2SVKLY2NHBR · pith_short_8: TWQWQ2SV

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/TWQWQ2SVKLY2NHBR242CV4WOBN \
  | 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: 9da1686a5552f1a69c31d7342af2ce0b4a52736c904b0a8f90f15d2487ff54c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "357e8b858f449976556b7c9d33e44b03304a831f52b4b23cc02f1a0709ac6254",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-24T01:16:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15df807608e3e6a6f4ba9beac98de32dfc146186b03a3502f0f44d5d71045dbb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.6460",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}