Pith Number

pith:LVEMXU6H

pith:2017:LVEMXU6H77D4S54D74CUPOFGQZ

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Harnessing Natural Experiments to Quantify the Causal Effect of Badges

Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, Tomasz Kusmierczyk

arxiv:1707.08160 v2 · 2017-07-25 · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LVEMXU6H77D4S54D74CUPOFGQZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:46.369328Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d48cbd3c7ffc7c97783ff0547b8a68663ae0b27900bb376f4c10c5de9f191ba

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.08160 · arxiv_version: 1707.08160v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.08160 · pith_short_12: LVEMXU6H77D4 · pith_short_16: LVEMXU6H77D4S54D · pith_short_8: LVEMXU6H

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/LVEMXU6H77D4S54D74CUPOFGQZ \
  | 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: 5d48cbd3c7ffc7c97783ff0547b8a68663ae0b27900bb376f4c10c5de9f191ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be857ec81fdd340d1971692f59925c74c3033874a2d7c106462e22c8b88df085",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-25T19:09:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73d55ff3b9fcc72609c259c70e2b4ac986b83f3bb2bf612ec32b35a5cb71b9c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.08160",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}