Pith Number

pith:5B6VFPKQ

pith:2010:5B6VFPKQRUFCQEMRXJT4H7PFTX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Popular and/or Prestigious? Measures of Scholarly Esteem

Blaise Cronin (School of Library, Bloomington, IN, Indiana University, Information Science, USA), Ying Ding

arxiv:1012.4871 v1 · 2010-12-22 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5B6VFPKQRUFCQEMRXJT4H7PFTX}

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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	2026-05-18T04:32:45.092139Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e87d52bd508d0a281191ba67c3fde59dd35128daf6143911d664794fd2edf55e

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.4871 · arxiv_version: 1012.4871v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.4871 · pith_short_12: 5B6VFPKQRUFC · pith_short_16: 5B6VFPKQRUFCQEMR · pith_short_8: 5B6VFPKQ

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/5B6VFPKQRUFCQEMRXJT4H7PFTX \
  | 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: e87d52bd508d0a281191ba67c3fde59dd35128daf6143911d664794fd2edf55e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da27c964c3e5fe2c03a6bca8ea4bb3d843e19bdd9ac7444c04f0b44c0b2414b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-22T03:19:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c88474a092b8991f9d05af56d0465c9b6e71a3d5f291be1d72a6433f76e0efac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.4871",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}