Pith Number

pith:F76ZSFN5

pith:2018:F76ZSFN5VOGOGK65BQRRSVLLXL

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The long-term impact of ranking algorithms in growing networks

Linyuan L\"u, Manuel Sebastian Mariani, Mat\'u\v{s} Medo, Shilun Zhang

arxiv:1805.12505 v2 · 2018-05-31 · physics.soc-ph · cs.CY · cs.IR · cs.SI

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\pithnumber{F76ZSFN5VOGOGK65BQRRSVLLXL}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:50:07.237887Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ffd9915bdab8ce32bdd0c2319556bbadf53c57ce82d404d4dd93673c777460e

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.12505 · arxiv_version: 1805.12505v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.12505 · pith_short_12: F76ZSFN5VOGO · pith_short_16: F76ZSFN5VOGOGK65 · pith_short_8: F76ZSFN5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/F76ZSFN5VOGOGK65BQRRSVLLXL \
  | 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: 2ffd9915bdab8ce32bdd0c2319556bbadf53c57ce82d404d4dd93673c777460e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b7bffe84c73d2004c3102c0bbe297b37778f7589e61d95cb4a2be119c32b6a9a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.IR",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-31T15:06:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25c54de620138954b531a4b04fa4f80b20958826b64a2d64821308e773a8adda"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.12505",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}