Pith Number

pith:6FKHQYT6

pith:2016:6FKHQYT63BWIKACPJR2U6I3EFG

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RPYS i/o: A web-based tool for the historiography and visualization of citation classics, sleeping beauties, and research fronts

Jordan A. Comins, Loet Leydesdorff

arxiv:1602.01950 v2 · 2016-02-05 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6FKHQYT63BWIKACPJR2U6I3EFG}

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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	2026-05-18T01:21:08.247628Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f15478627ed86c85004f4c754f23642998ac35ddbcd0f1450f7837259a7c7fbc

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.01950 · arxiv_version: 1602.01950v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.01950 · pith_short_12: 6FKHQYT63BWI · pith_short_16: 6FKHQYT63BWIKACP · pith_short_8: 6FKHQYT6

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/6FKHQYT63BWIKACPJR2U6I3EFG \
  | 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: f15478627ed86c85004f4c754f23642998ac35ddbcd0f1450f7837259a7c7fbc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "33d74c1eace458ce2408c70e5aad51da59bc872b87d4f635ab0e10b09c0d624c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-05T08:10:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "55b4c56fa0dc70c13f1ec2aeb2f349c2b5845a10b85b9ce3edd35c2665e8551b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.01950",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}