Pith Number

pith:5KR4XI6F

pith:2020:5KR4XI6F6SDV2ISDV53RQZ52DI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Experts and authorities receive disproportionate attention on Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis

Giovanni Colavizza, Kristina Gligori\'c, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Marcel Salath\'e, Martin M\"uller, Maxime Peyrard, Olesia Altunina, Robert West

arxiv:2008.08364 v1 · 2020-08-19 · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5KR4XI6F6SDV2ISDV53RQZ52DI}

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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	2026-07-05T01:28:25.149859Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eaa3cba3c5f4875d2243af771867ba1a171d2a2519762142599ca13b3902845e

Aliases

arxiv: 2008.08364 · arxiv_version: 2008.08364v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.08364 · pith_short_12: 5KR4XI6F6SDV · pith_short_16: 5KR4XI6F6SDV2ISD · pith_short_8: 5KR4XI6F

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/5KR4XI6F6SDV2ISDV53RQZ52DI \
  | 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: eaa3cba3c5f4875d2243af771867ba1a171d2a2519762142599ca13b3902845e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f79149659af7e43f3409ee413a4b90da68831670748c6e8b7eed824c5d3c42f4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2020-08-19T10:20:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9d46d902bfc1c61da6cf7e923c1921b359c1da8cfee559f3e1c5dd146edabe38"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2008.08364",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}