Pith Number

pith:3YQ6HF2L

pith:2016:3YQ6HF2L2AW35BSWQEPJFPVQPQ

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Quantifying perceived impact of scientific publications

Alexander Weissman, Filippo Radicchi, Johan Bollen

arxiv:1612.03962 v1 · 2016-12-12 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3YQ6HF2L2AW35BSWQEPJFPVQPQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:06.009434Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

de21e3974bd02dbe8656811e92beb07c1ddeb863c0319fddae1d61836ffbb866

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.03962 · arxiv_version: 1612.03962v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.03962 · pith_short_12: 3YQ6HF2L2AW3 · pith_short_16: 3YQ6HF2L2AW35BSW · pith_short_8: 3YQ6HF2L

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/3YQ6HF2L2AW35BSWQEPJFPVQPQ \
  | 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: de21e3974bd02dbe8656811e92beb07c1ddeb863c0319fddae1d61836ffbb866

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95c542d9f399343f3b39183024d894873aaf45d2909d5ffcfdd7433a980274ef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-12T22:52:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "10f143cfa8b17714d12a502f171a6d03db4f98a77d7eb1116cf173a25bc5becf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.03962",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}