Pith Number

pith:BGVJSOXS

pith:2013:BGVJSOXSXF667HASPM7XMYMUC5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Counting publications and citations: Is more always better?

Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck, Paul Wouters

arxiv:1301.4597 v2 · 2013-01-19 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BGVJSOXSXF667HASPM7XMYMUC5}

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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	2026-05-18T03:29:15.609440Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09aa993af2b97def9c127b3f76619417687893738e5616a804072af602fc0600

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.4597 · arxiv_version: 1301.4597v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.4597 · pith_short_12: BGVJSOXSXF66 · pith_short_16: BGVJSOXSXF667HAS · pith_short_8: BGVJSOXS

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/BGVJSOXSXF667HASPM7XMYMUC5 \
  | 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: 09aa993af2b97def9c127b3f76619417687893738e5616a804072af602fc0600

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b450be8c07a04662dc64c448ef9cfe85381ed21cd1c2b719fa79e0b49de10df3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-19T20:44:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d5659c8d7038dadd216669fd0384a90f8574061cb6ee3a683e311b89e5d4090c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.4597",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}