Pith Number

pith:KAUGR3BN

pith:2012:KAUGR3BNSOUMPTY7CVLGI6CDCP

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A bird's-eye view of scientific trading: Dependency relations among fields of science

Blaise Cronin, Erjia Yan, Loet Leydesdorff, Ying Ding

arxiv:1211.5820 v1 · 2012-11-25 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KAUGR3BNSOUMPTY7CVLGI6CDCP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:40:01.874538Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

502868ec2d93a8c7cf1f155664784313f60c6f4006f2af8ac713a1036c65c869

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.5820 · arxiv_version: 1211.5820v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.5820 · pith_short_12: KAUGR3BNSOUM · pith_short_16: KAUGR3BNSOUMPTY7 · pith_short_8: KAUGR3BN

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/KAUGR3BNSOUMPTY7CVLGI6CDCP \
  | 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: 502868ec2d93a8c7cf1f155664784313f60c6f4006f2af8ac713a1036c65c869

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81c58ffe776e822d4978f7605f8b6f21b8e52826ce5547fbaa62b6c3ecb398c0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-25T23:22:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "776a5d4f4cea3fbb3f8aebf3a5c523ab1e2c9e706579fed79fcd27d5da8edd8a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.5820",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}