Pith Number

pith:ANFMTAWS

pith:2016:ANFMTAWSC6VGAQ2CM3SJRXHAWW

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Predictability of Popularity: Gaps between Prediction and Understanding

Amit Sharma, Benjamin Shulman, Dan Cosley

arxiv:1603.09436 v1 · 2016-03-31 · cs.SI · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ANFMTAWSC6VGAQ2CM3SJRXHAWW}

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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	2026-05-18T01:17:58.627178Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

034ac982d217aa60434266e498dce0b58de630ec514515e221738adc6a826bd1

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.09436 · arxiv_version: 1603.09436v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.09436 · pith_short_12: ANFMTAWSC6VG · pith_short_16: ANFMTAWSC6VGAQ2C · pith_short_8: ANFMTAWS

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/ANFMTAWSC6VGAQ2CM3SJRXHAWW \
  | 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: 034ac982d217aa60434266e498dce0b58de630ec514515e221738adc6a826bd1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ab5510b4d13839c243338946ea04d3825468caa8ce37bf80d8d2f62ca6d2926",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-31T01:52:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ef9a1b0de8c63bdd7e3d1900c46ff014ada348cee3188c2e33ee196496a8fa47"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.09436",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}