Pith Number

pith:HDKAPJGN

pith:2017:HDKAPJGNGX6HEWDHGE2IEC5EYT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Early identification of important patents through network centrality

Fran\c{c}ois Lafond, Manuel Sebastian Mariani, Matus Medo

arxiv:1710.09182 v1 · 2017-10-25 · cs.SI · cs.DL · cs.IR · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HDKAPJGNGX6HEWDHGE2IEC5EYT}

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:28.656712Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

38d407a4cd35fc7258673134820ba4c4dec1f6f308c0c348605ecf8e9350918f

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.09182 · arxiv_version: 1710.09182v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.09182 · pith_short_12: HDKAPJGNGX6H · pith_short_16: HDKAPJGNGX6HEWDH · pith_short_8: HDKAPJGN

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/HDKAPJGNGX6HEWDHGE2IEC5EYT \
  | 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: 38d407a4cd35fc7258673134820ba4c4dec1f6f308c0c348605ecf8e9350918f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4aae209fa495a2f8c4316f96d629f73c3be85454c14a001ecd085dfeec276c8a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "cs.IR",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-25T11:43:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3dba89f7cd0f52acb7f810b29162715c3c79baa489a6249f4c1ea95457e42c7a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.09182",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}