Pith Number

pith:5DXKIZWK

pith:2018:5DXKIZWK3OESLI6LH2AIF7PJHH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

h{\alpha}: The Scientist as Chimpanzee or Bonobo

Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, Tobias Opthof

arxiv:1810.06998 v2 · 2018-10-16 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5DXKIZWK3OESLI6LH2AIF7PJHH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:02:59.231368Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8eea466cadb8925a3cb3e8082fde939f75890d49ca549bb8aad4b2d6e8f8eea

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.06998 · arxiv_version: 1810.06998v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.06998 · pith_short_12: 5DXKIZWK3OES · pith_short_16: 5DXKIZWK3OESLI6L · pith_short_8: 5DXKIZWK

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/5DXKIZWK3OESLI6LH2AIF7PJHH \
  | 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: e8eea466cadb8925a3cb3e8082fde939f75890d49ca549bb8aad4b2d6e8f8eea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23b939cb4ba44ea70aca33a6f39337814436a2d78c04b55dba787210dc409fdc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-16T13:54:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82f51ad38805f5b8538bf8f33d0a1a34bf07a441933454584b815d53b3921378"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.06998",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}