Pith Number

pith:EQY4BYA6

pith:2018:EQY4BYA6FXB4YUMR33CLPB5NMK

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Interdisciplinarity: A Nobel Opportunity

Michael Szell, Roberta Sinatra, Yifang Ma

arxiv:1811.00286 v1 · 2018-11-01 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EQY4BYA6FXB4YUMR33CLPB5NMK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:42.885962Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2431c0e01e2dc3cc5191dec4b787ad629dff9120f4de85b25624a0ae0875d3ea

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.00286 · arxiv_version: 1811.00286v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.00286 · pith_short_12: EQY4BYA6FXB4 · pith_short_16: EQY4BYA6FXB4YUMR · pith_short_8: EQY4BYA6

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/EQY4BYA6FXB4YUMR33CLPB5NMK \
  | 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: 2431c0e01e2dc3cc5191dec4b787ad629dff9120f4de85b25624a0ae0875d3ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1f411f116020d8db6f53c5849310c2808827c04232a935e798b1b09d5562a779",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-01T08:56:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e5f7640fd0d6e7dba2f7e2b011c792ad9890a0c5835b896d61a3b7f78d148ee8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.00286",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}