Pith Number

pith:4UWAFSHY

pith:2015:4UWAFSHYIB23D235VTSVYXNXRD

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The Open Access Advantage Considering Citation, Article Usage and Social Media Attention

Chen Liu, Wenli Mao, Xianwen Wang, Zhichao Fang

arxiv:1503.05702 v1 · 2015-03-19 · cs.DL · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4UWAFSHYIB23D235VTSVYXNXRD}

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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	2026-05-18T02:20:58.329789Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e52c02c8f84075b1eb7dace55c5db788d32dd611811118deb983abfc83acc6fb

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.05702 · arxiv_version: 1503.05702v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.05702 · pith_short_12: 4UWAFSHYIB23 · pith_short_16: 4UWAFSHYIB23D235 · pith_short_8: 4UWAFSHY

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/4UWAFSHYIB23D235VTSVYXNXRD \
  | 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: e52c02c8f84075b1eb7dace55c5db788d32dd611811118deb983abfc83acc6fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "84c15d5eba451e87d85fed4e86c9597ac41be3207c402fe1b8cb5a898a0adf1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-19T10:41:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "225a882036f9cc1410b3073be67b09a951ae41e04f4e24dd658815e08cda1423"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.05702",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}