Pith Number

pith:DPV4N3LV

pith:2016:DPV4N3LV2RII5D6NOCMDQ5DMAD

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Identification of long-term concept-symbols among citations: Can documents be clustered in terms of common intellectual histories?

Jordan A. Comins, Loet Leydesdorff

arxiv:1601.00288 v1 · 2016-01-03 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DPV4N3LV2RII5D6NOCMDQ5DMAD}

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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	2026-05-18T01:23:27.893812Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1bebc6ed75d4508e8fcd709838746c00e3950206b20c45a2f8814b784fbfd776

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.00288 · arxiv_version: 1601.00288v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.00288 · pith_short_12: DPV4N3LV2RII · pith_short_16: DPV4N3LV2RII5D6N · pith_short_8: DPV4N3LV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DPV4N3LV2RII5D6NOCMDQ5DMAD \
  | 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: 1bebc6ed75d4508e8fcd709838746c00e3950206b20c45a2f8814b784fbfd776

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4c06fc9e76da721a8d970f4233f9cccd0138c3725a93a8d025e413e7948379e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-03T12:52:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bbb0275e8e33b4274c5574e04ef09316f7346bf79c036160089f74dadca5ab90"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.00288",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}