Pith Number

pith:2PV33TEN

pith:2017:2PV33TENEF6A3Z2LGI3X2RMWKM

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On the Impact of Micro-Packages: An Empirical Study of the npm JavaScript Ecosystem

Ali Ouni, Daniel M. German, Katsuro Inoue, Raula Gaikovina Kula

arxiv:1709.04638 v1 · 2017-09-14 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2PV33TENEF6A3Z2LGI3X2RMWKM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:11.050971Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d3ebbdcc8d217c0de74b32377d4596533d6444d62e62af45c4c2b73c85c29f28

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.04638 · arxiv_version: 1709.04638v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.04638 · pith_short_12: 2PV33TENEF6A · pith_short_16: 2PV33TENEF6A3Z2L · pith_short_8: 2PV33TEN

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/2PV33TENEF6A3Z2LGI3X2RMWKM \
  | 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: d3ebbdcc8d217c0de74b32377d4596533d6444d62e62af45c4c2b73c85c29f28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a4f64d6381dade6488988f77c9a3e55ae029d7a67d1676e90735a752afa22fe7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-14T07:26:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a1d13f85a20d48fbb22939534ba5e998057801d1cb4ff8128921c2ce1465be6f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.04638",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}