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Pith Number

pith:H4AEVVCP

pith:2018:H4AEVVCPJKTSVQHS5HAJT6YJJJ
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Identifying single influential publications in a research field: New analysis opportunities of the CRExplorer

Andreas Thor, Lutz Bornmann, R\"udiger Mutz, Werner Marx

arxiv:1801.08720 v2 · 2018-01-26 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H4AEVVCPJKTSVQHS5HAJT6YJJJ}

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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.
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First computed 2026-05-18T00:20:29.894588Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f004ad44f4aa72ac0f2e9c099fb094a7276cf4e758d3f569a9b6a238194109b

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.08720 · arxiv_version: 1801.08720v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.08720 · pith_short_12: H4AEVVCPJKTS · pith_short_16: H4AEVVCPJKTSVQHS · pith_short_8: H4AEVVCP
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/H4AEVVCPJKTSVQHS5HAJT6YJJJ \
  | 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: 3f004ad44f4aa72ac0f2e9c099fb094a7276cf4e758d3f569a9b6a238194109b
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a6f974f55e97492810106801347828541d6d18a15fa767fb9f653293de08b6e6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-26T09:14:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cb028f1ed8d78ba026d94e4331c63a62762d5ba08ce340e485dd3935a1609976"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.08720",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}