Pith Number

pith:DL56VYMH

pith:2020:DL56VYMH7JYWTTAPJFUEU3LNJU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantifying Success in Science: An Overview

Feng Xia, Hanxiao Pan, Ivan Lee, Jie Hou, Teng Guo, Xiaomei Bai

arxiv:2008.04649 v1 · 2020-08-10 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DL56VYMH7JYWTTAPJFUEU3LNJU}

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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	2026-07-05T01:26:27.463000Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1afbeae187fa7169cc0f49684a6d6d4d11f080d2715115e8573e1ba1c4fa7bf8

Aliases

arxiv: 2008.04649 · arxiv_version: 2008.04649v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.04649 · pith_short_12: DL56VYMH7JYW · pith_short_16: DL56VYMH7JYWTTAP · pith_short_8: DL56VYMH

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/DL56VYMH7JYWTTAPJFUEU3LNJU \
  | 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: 1afbeae187fa7169cc0f49684a6d6d4d11f080d2715115e8573e1ba1c4fa7bf8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8201119698b15791afbce231938a6067c823990ac8d133257bcb2116d349a55a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2020-08-10T09:49:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "71cab876e93519b34a3049b5bcfe14e9856d1c2cc182f591df46ecddb132152a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2008.04649",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}