Pith Number

pith:5JNABVZQ

pith:2018:5JNABVZQRPFKJ2ATDUW44YIEVE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Measuring scientific buzz

Jevin West, Kishore Vasan

arxiv:1812.03249 v1 · 2018-12-08 · cs.SI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5JNABVZQRPFKJ2ATDUW44YIEVE}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:46.772648Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea5a00d7308bcaa4e8131d2dce6104a909a16158d000cf74781d3596d1a3f9cd

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.03249 · arxiv_version: 1812.03249v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.03249 · pith_short_12: 5JNABVZQRPFK · pith_short_16: 5JNABVZQRPFKJ2AT · pith_short_8: 5JNABVZQ

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/5JNABVZQRPFKJ2ATDUW44YIEVE \
  | 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: ea5a00d7308bcaa4e8131d2dce6104a909a16158d000cf74781d3596d1a3f9cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5e8860effa4ae872187ab61aa7a3a0526d698c4bf9fc84f0a8eb0f21c802f82",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-08T00:59:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4dc233cbb57f9805a729ac2ab2a348a6b1a07e6f583bc72319cb0a25f48dad1f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.03249",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}