Pith Number

pith:6WHFS3TB

pith:2016:6WHFS3TBH6Q7Q6MG42MMYTSGAC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Andreas Thor, Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx

arxiv:1607.01266 v2 · 2016-07-05 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6WHFS3TBH6Q7Q6MG42MMYTSGAC}

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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	2026-05-18T01:10:45.465240Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f58e596e613fa1f87986e698cc4e4600b249782a422bfba760589a4fb1be3f87

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.01266 · arxiv_version: 1607.01266v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.01266 · pith_short_12: 6WHFS3TBH6Q7 · pith_short_16: 6WHFS3TBH6Q7Q6MG · pith_short_8: 6WHFS3TB

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/6WHFS3TBH6Q7Q6MG42MMYTSGAC \
  | 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: f58e596e613fa1f87986e698cc4e4600b249782a422bfba760589a4fb1be3f87

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a7cd4a449175432812d5e466024ca545adb2655d9c0a7f838e966c65c16e5394",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-05T14:26:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02b765a23a7a64b3d461e72694a7117c6878d66786e16813cd438ac298c83867"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.01266",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}