Pith Number

pith:CTIV554L

pith:2011:CTIV554LCFV7HX36BZ4A5EIU5C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Universality of citation distributions revisited

Anthony F.J. van Raan, Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck

arxiv:1105.2934 v3 · 2011-05-15 · cs.DL · physics.data-an · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CTIV554LCFV7HX36BZ4A5EIU5C}

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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	2026-05-18T04:14:28.973937Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

14d15ef78b116bf3df7e0e780e9114e8bd434e136c3e9e2ff34ccbfe5ff517f1

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.2934 · arxiv_version: 1105.2934v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.2934 · pith_short_12: CTIV554LCFV7 · pith_short_16: CTIV554LCFV7HX36 · pith_short_8: CTIV554L

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/CTIV554LCFV7HX36BZ4A5EIU5C \
  | 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: 14d15ef78b116bf3df7e0e780e9114e8bd434e136c3e9e2ff34ccbfe5ff517f1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d4e24645113195554c5c128a10766e287803c0fbe83a1d6ef3dfa353446ed08",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-15T09:03:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "98d9b12edd7beaceb1a67a95a2a3edb8996f645e60712914b1d2b98a7c8508d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.2934",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}