Pith Number

pith:67W4YUFS

pith:2012:67W4YUFSJ6KMFNKJQREJQSQCFX

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Innovation as a Nonlinear Process, the Scientometric Perspective, and the Specification of an "Innovation Opportunities Explorer"

Daniele Rotolo, Loet Leydesdorff, Wouter De Nooy

arxiv:1202.6235 v2 · 2012-02-28 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{67W4YUFSJ6KMFNKJQREJQSQCFX}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:35:14.151349Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f7edcc50b24f94c2b5498448984a022dd1bae41c466f410f69b754596a24921b

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.6235 · arxiv_version: 1202.6235v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.6235 · pith_short_12: 67W4YUFSJ6KM · pith_short_16: 67W4YUFSJ6KMFNKJ · pith_short_8: 67W4YUFS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/67W4YUFSJ6KMFNKJQREJQSQCFX \
  | 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: f7edcc50b24f94c2b5498448984a022dd1bae41c466f410f69b754596a24921b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d0cdb31d67534573f1bfefa8fc248083e82018d851e8c15815df1d6e206ec640",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-28T14:20:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ac27caaf4da47c8eeff7cc734d3aadfdc6362c783ab8cbf3c6c99ab729f2a801"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.6235",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}