Pith Number

pith:DIJTAXQY

pith:2017:DIJTAXQYFGASOJ5X2YFZG55JWH

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Large Teams Have Developed Science and Technology; Small Teams Have Disrupted It

Dashun Wang, James A. Evans, Lingfei Wu

arxiv:1709.02445 v2 · 2017-09-07 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DIJTAXQYFGASOJ5X2YFZG55JWH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:30.361421Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1a13305e1829812727b7d60b9377a9b1c585ed3defcfe2407a159dc4ad332fde

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.02445 · arxiv_version: 1709.02445v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.02445 · pith_short_12: DIJTAXQYFGAS · pith_short_16: DIJTAXQYFGASOJ5X · pith_short_8: DIJTAXQY

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/DIJTAXQYFGASOJ5X2YFZG55JWH \
  | 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: 1a13305e1829812727b7d60b9377a9b1c585ed3defcfe2407a159dc4ad332fde

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "df8d21f7821c38831abfec0203c198423cddf95162a71195bccfa78b6ddc3ca5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-07T20:43:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1314088c30cc0626af4f2a7d1c1284186204fcf7e6e1c68d59162aea31099a4c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.02445",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}