Pith Number

pith:CSS3T7ID

pith:2018:CSS3T7IDCX4XASYL7D36WAGAL5

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Discontinuities in Citation Relations among Journals: Self-organized Criticality as a Model of Scientific Revolutions and Change

Caroline S. Wagner, Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann

arxiv:1803.00554 v1 · 2018-03-01 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CSS3T7IDCX4XASYL7D36WAGAL5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:22:11.478231Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

14a5b9fd0315f9704b0bf8f7eb00c05f42ae66b2111113278f9711ed4bc7e602

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.00554 · arxiv_version: 1803.00554v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.00554 · pith_short_12: CSS3T7IDCX4X · pith_short_16: CSS3T7IDCX4XASYL · pith_short_8: CSS3T7ID

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/CSS3T7IDCX4XASYL7D36WAGAL5 \
  | 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: 14a5b9fd0315f9704b0bf8f7eb00c05f42ae66b2111113278f9711ed4bc7e602

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fefeabcc41bbc00e1e7282931562546a2f432a01322bb418c774479a4b667837",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-01T18:45:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "198ec14430bc2f4705001fcf12d881c0623c9fadbefe07c399e4965acbba46b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.00554",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}