Pith Number

pith:LLJPP4BL

pith:2017:LLJPP4BLE4XWBQTTXNTFKPHDSK

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Quantifying patterns of research interest evolution

Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Dashun Wang, Tao Jia

arxiv:1709.03319 v1 · 2017-09-11 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LLJPP4BLE4XWBQTTXNTFKPHDSK}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:32:50.176021Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5ad2f7f02b272f60c273bb66553ce392b8aa379673cf0fad7d04829a5eeb1954

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.03319 · arxiv_version: 1709.03319v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.03319 · pith_short_12: LLJPP4BLE4XW · pith_short_16: LLJPP4BLE4XWBQTT · pith_short_8: LLJPP4BL

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/LLJPP4BLE4XWBQTTXNTFKPHDSK \
  | 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: 5ad2f7f02b272f60c273bb66553ce392b8aa379673cf0fad7d04829a5eeb1954

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f76feecaf31b1c860a62b5acadac022e9459a978cb8f4d95def61f8f09443220",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-11T10:13:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a4ab763e5412b64082b5d8f358fac2dbb7459f75b0e87ce6fe818ab460df3e18"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.03319",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}