Pith Number

pith:CVTFCISS

pith:2026:CVTFCISSFEDFJOPOXQFSMPVKZF

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Success in Science: How Global Prestige Organizes Careers

Marek Kwiek, Wojciech Roszka

arxiv:2605.16340 v1 · 2026-05-07 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CVTFCISSFEDFJOPOXQFSMPVKZF}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-20T00:02:17.449654Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1566512252290654b9eebc0b263eaac966f0d462e58199dfa8ceb62a8bded84c

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16340 · arxiv_version: 2605.16340v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16340 · pith_short_12: CVTFCISSFEDF · pith_short_16: CVTFCISSFEDFJOPO · pith_short_8: CVTFCISS

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/CVTFCISSFEDFJOPOXQFSMPVKZF \
  | 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: 1566512252290654b9eebc0b263eaac966f0d462e58199dfa8ceb62a8bded84c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "89c43f66e35fd664c06b46f3eb86c1beba96ec4ec36652deb0b7f9d596742c93",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-07T18:40:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da7e462eee980cfdd19680a669df51a197995f327d9bd15b330f2db8922a07b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16340",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}