Pith Number

pith:XBBFYOQ3

pith:2018:XBBFYOQ3CCLH4LRHDNL4JNUF6Q

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Refrain from adopting the combination of citation and journal metrics to grade publications, as used in the Italian national research assessment exercise (VQR 2011-2014)

Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Giovanni Abramo

arxiv:1810.12651 v1 · 2018-10-30 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XBBFYOQ3CCLH4LRHDNL4JNUF6Q}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:56.386736Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b8425c3a1b10967e2e271b57c4b685f40144e282c6b5f93ffa0d5fb77ae0a396

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.12651 · arxiv_version: 1810.12651v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.12651 · pith_short_12: XBBFYOQ3CCLH · pith_short_16: XBBFYOQ3CCLH4LRH · pith_short_8: XBBFYOQ3

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/XBBFYOQ3CCLH4LRHDNL4JNUF6Q \
  | 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: b8425c3a1b10967e2e271b57c4b685f40144e282c6b5f93ffa0d5fb77ae0a396

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b29d47c55b00d7cb2e18a5d19506166024d488d890b9b9d535e43ac6a0bf3a3e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-30T11:02:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "47324342dea9a38cdd741530861771442fa39836426fdc16e212af46caf4cc6d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.12651",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}