Pith Number

pith:MDXBNSMO

pith:2020:MDXBNSMOBYZNEFALMICGY65YU2

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Scientific elite revisited: Patterns of productivity, collaboration, authorship and impact

Dashun Wang, Jichao Li, Santo Fortunato, Yian Yin

arxiv:2003.12519 v1 · 2020-03-27 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MDXBNSMOBYZNEFALMICGY65YU2}

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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	2026-07-05T01:05:12.181741Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

60ee16c98e0e32d2140b62046c7bb8a6a0225046611b2160b455d84913f1d232

Aliases

arxiv: 2003.12519 · arxiv_version: 2003.12519v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2003.12519 · pith_short_12: MDXBNSMOBYZN · pith_short_16: MDXBNSMOBYZNEFAL · pith_short_8: MDXBNSMO

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/MDXBNSMOBYZNEFALMICGY65YU2 \
  | 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: 60ee16c98e0e32d2140b62046c7bb8a6a0225046611b2160b455d84913f1d232

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5bb1e05b1e7293272c29171b4d0f4c2416ac6effd8db09a7df78bd1437eab8fa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2020-03-27T16:31:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dda5f4c5bcaa3122a9220f4cc3fb19abcb6e39b3d452b0f014093e1ba8779b7e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2003.12519",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}