Pith Number

pith:354VG7WS

pith:2015:354VG7WSCFSC7GFNVIACDSMP6C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When is an article actually published? An analysis of online availability, publication, and indexation dates

Rodrigo Costas, Stefanie Haustein, Timothy D. Bowman

arxiv:1505.00796 v1 · 2015-05-04 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{354VG7WSCFSC7GFNVIACDSMP6C}

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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	2026-05-18T02:17:00.004309Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

df79537ed211642f98adaa0021c98ff09c5ce1198bcb8ac457539a30d22891dd

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.00796 · arxiv_version: 1505.00796v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.00796 · pith_short_12: 354VG7WSCFSC · pith_short_16: 354VG7WSCFSC7GFN · pith_short_8: 354VG7WS

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/354VG7WSCFSC7GFNVIACDSMP6C \
  | 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: df79537ed211642f98adaa0021c98ff09c5ce1198bcb8ac457539a30d22891dd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a77b55758375fce741a71a8945e459b70bbad01cb5506668d1ee6654e404f7ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-04T20:07:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "23fa76bb1b93be86b5bcf3db4459f575359a4ed89e5ac088beab0ab80981f66e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.00796",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}