Pith Number

pith:AVHKHA3L

pith:2013:AVHKHA3LFC5WJT3GWETTMRT6UR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The transition towards immortality: non-linear autocatalytic growth of citations to scientific papers

Michael Golosovsky, Sorin Solomon

arxiv:1302.2760 v1 · 2013-02-12 · physics.soc-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AVHKHA3LFC5WJT3GWETTMRT6UR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:30:40.877988Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

054ea3836b28bb64cf66b12736467ea46368a53cf82c06d9799cef2ea44ccaea

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.2760 · arxiv_version: 1302.2760v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.2760 · pith_short_12: AVHKHA3LFC5W · pith_short_16: AVHKHA3LFC5WJT3G · pith_short_8: AVHKHA3L

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/AVHKHA3LFC5WJT3GWETTMRT6UR \
  | 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: 054ea3836b28bb64cf66b12736467ea46368a53cf82c06d9799cef2ea44ccaea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "658176f03cb56b56b6e88f44e0cdaa3dd01164ec5a97bcd104f11dde71e4ef5d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-12T11:24:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04afbe582997b64721d8e50b7785a35a31e59454699f4606196de43836046de4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.2760",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}