Pith Number

pith:7UKHFGTH

pith:2011:7UKHFGTHA7H36S346TXF34SCJB

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On the shoulders of students? The contribution of PhD students to the advancement of knowledge

Vincent Lariviere

arxiv:1108.5648 v1 · 2011-08-29 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7UKHFGTHA7H36S346TXF34SCJB}

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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	2026-05-18T04:14:37.071167Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fd14729a6707cfbf4b7cf4ee5df242484f396d3817e9ead5b324b4dba52267e2

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.5648 · arxiv_version: 1108.5648v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.5648 · pith_short_12: 7UKHFGTHA7H3 · pith_short_16: 7UKHFGTHA7H36S34 · pith_short_8: 7UKHFGTH

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/7UKHFGTHA7H36S346TXF34SCJB \
  | 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: fd14729a6707cfbf4b7cf4ee5df242484f396d3817e9ead5b324b4dba52267e2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "93d021795489005d91b380b3a0134708de9b9b059b2824d305814854f0cc7186",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-29T16:51:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7727fef34bc6dc1a5b2d3cba24439f5e3924cc7232e8876295c8338a5c3c704f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.5648",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}