Pith Number

pith:EG63L2NB

pith:2016:EG63L2NBIBTGLTZ32QIZUMT7R3

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Introducing CitedReferencesExplorer (CRExplorer): A program for Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy with Cited References Standardization

Andreas Thor, Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx

arxiv:1601.01199 v2 · 2016-01-06 · cs.DL

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EG63L2NBIBTGLTZ32QIZUMT7R3}

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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	2026-05-18T01:20:40.566689Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

21bdb5e9a1406665cf3bd4119a327f8ef7ec19b88d307293e08538625e97707c

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.01199 · arxiv_version: 1601.01199v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.01199 · pith_short_12: EG63L2NBIBTG · pith_short_16: EG63L2NBIBTGLTZ3 · pith_short_8: EG63L2NB

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/EG63L2NBIBTGLTZ32QIZUMT7R3 \
  | 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: 21bdb5e9a1406665cf3bd4119a327f8ef7ec19b88d307293e08538625e97707c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb37b3e8a4c7d04957d16a38b9262b8774ce59a86354f130c014c3fb7fd1a60a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-06T14:56:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b915ea37147b604b1e4dcb312042220b290af967f34a846766a673f15209189"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.01199",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}