Pith Number

pith:J2JDYZVC

pith:2012:J2JDYZVCETMPTCJAKNPXNQOREF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Runaway Events Dominate the Heavy Tail of Citation Distributions

Michael Golosovsky, Sorin Solomon

arxiv:1206.1999 v1 · 2012-06-10 · physics.soc-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J2JDYZVCETMPTCJAKNPXNQOREF}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:57:00.297169Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4e923c66a224d8f98920535f76c1d1217183aacf25a1869b0d3b884085e5faf6

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.1999 · arxiv_version: 1206.1999v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.1999 · pith_short_12: J2JDYZVCETMP · pith_short_16: J2JDYZVCETMPTCJA · pith_short_8: J2JDYZVC

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/J2JDYZVCETMPTCJAKNPXNQOREF \
  | 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: 4e923c66a224d8f98920535f76c1d1217183aacf25a1869b0d3b884085e5faf6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3316dd75cfad96c643f06825dffe57e3b968f1c58a840ba11e72fb6bd15c5826",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-10T06:43:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dab75f15672545f6446036b3ef7c7648efd51914045959daf37414cd0834f6ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.1999",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}