Pith Number

pith:BI3MU4BE

pith:2023:BI3MU4BECQC6WQKN2WAOW7JJUW

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Open Access Improves the Dissemination of Science: Insights from Wikipedia

Ahad Shoaib, Giovanni Colavizza, Puyu Yang, Robert West

arxiv:2305.13945 v2 · 2023-05-23 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BI3MU4BECQC6WQKN2WAOW7JJUW}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T09:21:00.584044Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a36ca70241405eb414dd580eb7d29a582f4e7a5feb341074e6fb5129568e7b8

Aliases

arxiv: 2305.13945 · arxiv_version: 2305.13945v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2305.13945 · pith_short_12: BI3MU4BECQC6 · pith_short_16: BI3MU4BECQC6WQKN · pith_short_8: BI3MU4BE

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/BI3MU4BECQC6WQKN2WAOW7JJUW \
  | 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: 0a36ca70241405eb414dd580eb7d29a582f4e7a5feb341074e6fb5129568e7b8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9658fc8276a60cf840cf07af1572eeafab76c1912f3f4f66cac830828b5e942e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2023-05-23T11:10:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec982ecff8eeddcbb005021b8c5cf64c908a0ea25e3bbed1efa0d49a74b9d890"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2305.13945",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}