Pith Number

pith:BQFV7P5R

pith:2020:BQFV7P5RHYD44VMDV7ZSXGLZP6

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Citation Cascade and the Evolution of Topic Relevance

Chao Min, Erjia Yan, Jianjun Sun, Qingyu Chen, Yi Bu

arxiv:2004.12275 v1 · 2020-04-26 · cs.SI · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BQFV7P5RHYD44VMDV7ZSXGLZP6}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T00:58:14.085303Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c0b5fbfb13e07ce5583aff32b99797faafb99863cdece53470cda66c2e6c494

Aliases

arxiv: 2004.12275 · arxiv_version: 2004.12275v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2004.12275 · pith_short_12: BQFV7P5RHYD4 · pith_short_16: BQFV7P5RHYD44VMD · pith_short_8: BQFV7P5R

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/BQFV7P5RHYD44VMDV7ZSXGLZP6 \
  | 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: 0c0b5fbfb13e07ce5583aff32b99797faafb99863cdece53470cda66c2e6c494

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f2b7e7e1073adb98748e1489442bfea368574bba1b7a4f86a7b993ffa4159dc0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2020-04-26T02:37:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "20951c8e918ee56866023adbeef691603debdb133b36344899f5b4c5ba31af12"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2004.12275",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}