Pith Number

pith:MEPVVTIB

pith:2013:MEPVVTIBAN22USACQUI43DKOFG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A bibliometric index based on the complete list of cited publications

Judit Bar-Ilan, Mark Levene, Trevor Fenner

arxiv:1304.6945 v1 · 2013-04-25 · cs.DL

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MEPVVTIBAN22USACQUI43DKOFG}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T03:27:10.764945Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

611f5acd010375aa48028511cd8d4e298db5ce5cdfee1268768aec0ef46c4533

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.6945 · arxiv_version: 1304.6945v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.6945 · pith_short_12: MEPVVTIBAN22 · pith_short_16: MEPVVTIBAN22USAC · pith_short_8: MEPVVTIB

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/MEPVVTIBAN22USACQUI43DKOFG \
  | 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: 611f5acd010375aa48028511cd8d4e298db5ce5cdfee1268768aec0ef46c4533

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "10a3fda00c3a33c52b9b571e05563f9c01f836abc77ffba83242530da9580fb1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-25T15:54:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "762c2d27c0900d006dc060a68d66fbb7f18cee059458baf3aed3001a8b35588a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.6945",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}