Pith Number

pith:ZF5IKSRB

pith:2018:ZF5IKSRBFKXLNMY5S4QORGX6DQ

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The dynamically changing publication universe as a reference point in national impact evaluation: A counterfactual case study on the Chinese publication growth

Stephan Stahlschmidt, Sybille Hinze

arxiv:1801.05208 v2 · 2018-01-16 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZF5IKSRBFKXLNMY5S4QORGX6DQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:14.357423Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c97a854a212aaeb6b31d9720e89afe1c3073608c73afff8774b07a40b2801fed

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.05208 · arxiv_version: 1801.05208v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.05208 · pith_short_12: ZF5IKSRBFKXL · pith_short_16: ZF5IKSRBFKXLNMY5 · pith_short_8: ZF5IKSRB

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/ZF5IKSRBFKXLNMY5S4QORGX6DQ \
  | 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: c97a854a212aaeb6b31d9720e89afe1c3073608c73afff8774b07a40b2801fed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f26d19fd527cd376af22c33bb50cdb6565b5794ee20bff3f9b97aefdc5c63eb2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-16T11:08:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d9f7337dc706ca9a31019db02c4fe98828b2652692ecf370e113b384c1a66bd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.05208",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}