Pith Number

pith:IMS4PIQ3

pith:2018:IMS4PIQ3RV4XLSRBRFVMQPYJNQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A network-based citation indicator of scientific performance

Brian Uzzi, Christian Schulz, Dirk Helbing, Olivia Woolley-Meza

arxiv:1807.04712 v1 · 2018-07-12 · cs.DL · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IMS4PIQ3RV4XLSRBRFVMQPYJNQ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:10:52.715195Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4325c7a21b8d7975ca21896ac83f096c00c81e5a3fb9550859abd17b53b4c224

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.04712 · arxiv_version: 1807.04712v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.04712 · pith_short_12: IMS4PIQ3RV4X · pith_short_16: IMS4PIQ3RV4XLSRB · pith_short_8: IMS4PIQ3

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/IMS4PIQ3RV4XLSRBRFVMQPYJNQ \
  | 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: 4325c7a21b8d7975ca21896ac83f096c00c81e5a3fb9550859abd17b53b4c224

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "134b49e380ad8a2a7b9a985fd4036330721f6ed6361e1764fd26599b36e098af",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-12T16:29:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1eae7e035f783928683b00b24949598195fdf19aa6586fdc3ec7563f8d8eaed4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.04712",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}