Pith Number

pith:36JXAJLC

pith:2013:36JXAJLCXITE65I23V4AD2Y6L3

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The Wisdom of Citing Scientists

Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx

arxiv:1308.1554 v1 · 2013-08-07 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{36JXAJLCXITE65I23V4AD2Y6L3}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T03:16:30.860350Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

df93702562ba264f751add7801eb1e5eda91ebc4ffcb607125538caffa456f52

Aliases

arxiv: 1308.1554 · arxiv_version: 1308.1554v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1308.1554 · pith_short_12: 36JXAJLCXITE · pith_short_16: 36JXAJLCXITE65I2 · pith_short_8: 36JXAJLC

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/36JXAJLCXITE65I23V4AD2Y6L3 \
  | 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: df93702562ba264f751add7801eb1e5eda91ebc4ffcb607125538caffa456f52

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97b9e917f801352025abf22c348534df6a809d2af70ca9d6a119f52aaf61debe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph",
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2013-08-07T12:50:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd3594639ec0f579e0bd43b843496a72d8274ef98f76c70b25d0caa250a4e9af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1308.1554",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}