Pith Number

pith:ZVA4F4KZ

pith:2018:ZVA4F4KZV2MFNKO4LZ3NAJ6R2Z

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

h-index and its alternative: A Review

Akshay Deepak, Anand Bihari, Sudhakar Tripathi

arxiv:1811.03308 v1 · 2018-11-08 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZVA4F4KZV2MFNKO4LZ3NAJ6R2Z}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:17.014351Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cd41c2f159ae9856a9dc5e76d027d1d65b8288fc0388b5803c28c8ff32ae2708

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.03308 · arxiv_version: 1811.03308v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.03308 · pith_short_12: ZVA4F4KZV2MF · pith_short_16: ZVA4F4KZV2MFNKO4 · pith_short_8: ZVA4F4KZ

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/ZVA4F4KZV2MFNKO4LZ3NAJ6R2Z \
  | 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: cd41c2f159ae9856a9dc5e76d027d1d65b8288fc0388b5803c28c8ff32ae2708

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "455b5e36ca0f36830d3a2f18645cfe10133a8889869e2bccb13d6b9cee56c3bc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-08T08:11:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e3b46521f6e46ff0786a4d35410e1ce0737736ace02b513e345ff16aaf7ff58"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.03308",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}