Pith Number

pith:MH6BSFE4

pith:2016:MH6BSFE4R3A4QUTLDVK6C7FFEJ

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Concentration of research funding leads to decreasing marginal returns

Catherine Beaudry, Christine Brodeur, Philippe Mongeon, Vincent Lariviere

arxiv:1602.07396 v1 · 2016-02-24 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MH6BSFE4R3A4QUTLDVK6C7FFEJ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:04.130456Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

61fc19149c8ec1c8526b1d55e17ca52260fcb469739dcfd9e4f9c2b1846097f4

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.07396 · arxiv_version: 1602.07396v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.07396 · pith_short_12: MH6BSFE4R3A4 · pith_short_16: MH6BSFE4R3A4QUTL · pith_short_8: MH6BSFE4

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/MH6BSFE4R3A4QUTLDVK6C7FFEJ \
  | 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: 61fc19149c8ec1c8526b1d55e17ca52260fcb469739dcfd9e4f9c2b1846097f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a2494eeb94140809b07f3ff7cd04c44af236c3f24328c177b391d0273a90b25",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-24T04:37:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ddea7c8482beeafc5e1ab49923096260424788deb987bbb5793224b125042286"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.07396",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}