Pith Number

pith:2GURMEQN

pith:2017:2GURMEQNJARADWWC7UPTKSMNGB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Power-law citation distributions are not scale-free

Michael Golosovsky

arxiv:1708.01859 v1 · 2017-08-06 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2GURMEQNJARADWWC7UPTKSMNGB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:19.244434Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d1a916120d482201dac2fd1f35498d30457dc17e3e87b6dd7206e8741bf1cd90

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.01859 · arxiv_version: 1708.01859v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.01859 · pith_short_12: 2GURMEQNJARA · pith_short_16: 2GURMEQNJARADWWC · pith_short_8: 2GURMEQN

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/2GURMEQNJARADWWC7UPTKSMNGB \
  | 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: d1a916120d482201dac2fd1f35498d30457dc17e3e87b6dd7206e8741bf1cd90

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6476df60784af2b7ce8273338fc25c2bf79ceeaa63179299f54b8efda700c250",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-06T08:05:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3ca343b1ae8b3d2add0c0fed8f4f7b312bd46241cc6ce563f9176bd43036b703"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.01859",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}