Pith Number

pith:7WRXGSDX

pith:2019:7WRXGSDXV67B6GTAK2VHEE5OXI

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The few-get-richer: a surprising consequence of popularity-based rankings

Fabrizio Germano, Ga\"el Le Mens, Vicen\c{c} G\'omez

arxiv:1902.02580 v2 · 2019-02-07 · cs.IR · cs.CY · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7WRXGSDXV67B6GTAK2VHEE5OXI}

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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	2026-07-05T04:18:40.055618Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fda3734877afbe1f1a6056aa7213aeba226ee79054fd2d74a84d2e3bfa7d310f

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.02580 · arxiv_version: 1902.02580v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.02580 · pith_short_12: 7WRXGSDXV67B · pith_short_16: 7WRXGSDXV67B6GTA · pith_short_8: 7WRXGSDX

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/7WRXGSDXV67B6GTAK2VHEE5OXI \
  | 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: fda3734877afbe1f1a6056aa7213aeba226ee79054fd2d74a84d2e3bfa7d310f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a975fa1734b1f782d36d2159df792d59151dd961ace3b7fba329a04f80a6ac44",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-07T12:00:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9818d0cb4a8e3a923ca33827b258afe01b266b418bf1a9ae6c16df73800cac1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.02580",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}