Pith Number

pith:BJQSMABE

pith:2023:BJQSMABEFB5XQAKLRNRS2YAHU4

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Using Logs Data to Identify When Software Engineers Experience Flow or Focused Work

Adam Brown, Ben Holtz, Ciera Jaspen, Collin Green, Sarah D'Angelo

arxiv:2304.04711 v1 · 2023-04-10 · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BJQSMABEFB5XQAKLRNRS2YAHU4}

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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	2026-07-05T05:59:29.438091Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a61260024287b78014b8b632d6007a739c58e5bfdce387b4f409292004fa63b

Aliases

arxiv: 2304.04711 · arxiv_version: 2304.04711v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2304.04711 · pith_short_12: BJQSMABEFB5X · pith_short_16: BJQSMABEFB5XQAKL · pith_short_8: BJQSMABE

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/BJQSMABEFB5XQAKLRNRS2YAHU4 \
  | 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: 0a61260024287b78014b8b632d6007a739c58e5bfdce387b4f409292004fa63b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8e596607562d8bf89283b3df52595c290b1bacb5df79ef2293f30059306e5c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2023-04-10T17:09:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "79d35283609e3af125c920f169ea8edfea79d2c40d5d038d618f97220c9bfc90"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2304.04711",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}