Pith Number

pith:ILX3PTBN

pith:2024:ILX3PTBNT6QRPFLYMXZCZ6WBKO

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Decoding University Hierarchy and Prestige in China through Domestic Ph.D. Hiring Network

Chaolin Tian, Langtian Ma, Xunyi Jiang, Yifang Ma, Yurui Huang

arxiv:2401.12739 v3 · 2024-01-23 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ILX3PTBNT6QRPFLYMXZCZ6WBKO}

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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	2026-07-05T11:25:00.422170Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42efb7cc2d9fa117957865f22cfac1539049f7bb11bc922201814e64fda5733f

Aliases

arxiv: 2401.12739 · arxiv_version: 2401.12739v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.12739 · pith_short_12: ILX3PTBNT6QR · pith_short_16: ILX3PTBNT6QRPFLY · pith_short_8: ILX3PTBN

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/ILX3PTBNT6QRPFLYMXZCZ6WBKO \
  | 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: 42efb7cc2d9fa117957865f22cfac1539049f7bb11bc922201814e64fda5733f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d0575e31c2141993fac9b6c36284d3344d8808f8653c2a59347f7153d9a419e0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-01-23T13:15:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a103ed864a0e4ed85867c2a935d7f4755313a57286487f18f46ac144200534ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2401.12739",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}