Pith Number

pith:BMA553OA

pith:2012:BMA553OA6WIXFCXJHYZQ5KTVQA

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A reverse engineering approach to the suppression of citation biases reveals universal properties of citation distributions

Claudio Castellano, Filippo Radicchi

arxiv:1203.6742 v1 · 2012-03-30 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BMA553OA6WIXFCXJHYZQ5KTVQA}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:59:00.769151Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b01deedc0f591728ae93e330eaa7580343e10321617fe7a5c5c597c70053ddb

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.6742 · arxiv_version: 1203.6742v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.6742 · pith_short_12: BMA553OA6WIX · pith_short_16: BMA553OA6WIXFCXJ · pith_short_8: BMA553OA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BMA553OA6WIXFCXJHYZQ5KTVQA \
  | 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: 0b01deedc0f591728ae93e330eaa7580343e10321617fe7a5c5c597c70053ddb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf98a5aa8cafade876bd9bb85ef7063266e9dbd4c10cf7923cd7b1ee42ca5b8f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-30T08:39:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "658330848182448efd1efc2e4ccd69fc24c1686c256dfb8107c1088d56a0a1ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.6742",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}