Pith Number

pith:KV7IDZL2

pith:2023:KV7IDZL2VNTJJTLVFZ7OXOBZ6M

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How Early Participation Determines Long-Term Sustained Activity in GitHub Projects?

Hao He, Minghui Zhou, Weiwei Xu, Wenxin Xiao, Yuxia Zhang

arxiv:2308.06005 v4 · 2023-08-11 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KV7IDZL2VNTJJTLVFZ7OXOBZ6M}

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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	2026-07-05T06:55:05.380258Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

557e81e57aab6694cd752e7eebb839f30c35766e82b45a104273a2be8afe9d20

Aliases

arxiv: 2308.06005 · arxiv_version: 2308.06005v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.06005 · pith_short_12: KV7IDZL2VNTJ · pith_short_16: KV7IDZL2VNTJJTLV · pith_short_8: KV7IDZL2

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/KV7IDZL2VNTJJTLVFZ7OXOBZ6M \
  | 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: 557e81e57aab6694cd752e7eebb839f30c35766e82b45a104273a2be8afe9d20

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "47d9c792caf2c33dffe4571f87d5151ab1bb07e7076624a0dfb402054e980ff9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-11T08:24:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c7c2e823f22a0564412902ef8835d784520096d700369d0d04e95a8d59eb45f3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2308.06005",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}