Pith Number

pith:GBAXPDWP

pith:2025:GBAXPDWPQEXHJ6OWJTG2RQ3VVQ

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From Fads to Classics -- Analyzing Video Game Trend Evolutions through Steam Tags

Johannes Pfau, Nicolas Grelier, Nicolas Mathieu, St\'ephane Kaufmann

arxiv:2506.08881 v1 · 2025-06-10 · cs.HC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GBAXPDWPQEXHJ6OWJTG2RQ3VVQ}

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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	2026-07-05T11:19:14.588154Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3041778ecf812e74f9d64ccda8c375ac2693b5875fc8df1a29dd1af4ee1b9a8e

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.08881 · arxiv_version: 2506.08881v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.08881 · pith_short_12: GBAXPDWPQEXH · pith_short_16: GBAXPDWPQEXHJ6OW · pith_short_8: GBAXPDWP

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/GBAXPDWPQEXHJ6OWJTG2RQ3VVQ \
  | 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: 3041778ecf812e74f9d64ccda8c375ac2693b5875fc8df1a29dd1af4ee1b9a8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5252425ce648158be76c021f92e067ed1fbbce878d16765ae6bf0be559c93f47",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-10T15:11:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "03aa3d4ea701d01c2980f14a570de31dc3897690762d1479f691c1975ebcdc86"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.08881",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}