Pith Number

pith:UKTXL5MG

pith:2018:UKTXL5MG6EUMGUXVJVKW7XMJTI

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How important is choice of the scaling factor in standardizing citations?

Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero

arxiv:1810.13288 v1 · 2018-10-31 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UKTXL5MG6EUMGUXVJVKW7XMJTI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:49.773645Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a2a775f586f128c352f54d556fdd899a1d3468f7aa73f8b9d97df9d8d9759994

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.13288 · arxiv_version: 1810.13288v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.13288 · pith_short_12: UKTXL5MG6EUM · pith_short_16: UKTXL5MG6EUMGUXV · pith_short_8: UKTXL5MG

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UKTXL5MG6EUMGUXVJVKW7XMJTI \
  | 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: a2a775f586f128c352f54d556fdd899a1d3468f7aa73f8b9d97df9d8d9759994

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d00550f2351d5a9a1e3ebbed97113060e22bbba724a4354f9caff19881585a95",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-31T13:51:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0006809e7a9f0af224ea91fbbc9df1ec7dd6d9cfe018cc8022f475ad738f5478"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.13288",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}