Pith Number

pith:MPJ356WR

pith:2017:MPJ356WR6QWKEQ4SLIBWWTAC7E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

What makes papers visible on social media? An analysis of various document characteristics

Rodrigo Costas, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Larivi\`ere, Zohreh Zahedi

arxiv:1703.05777 v1 · 2017-03-16 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MPJ356WR6QWKEQ4SLIBWWTAC7E}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:32.138507Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

63d3befad1f42ca243925a036b4c02f900df1b8738c0848142b821a85dc50490

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.05777 · arxiv_version: 1703.05777v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.05777 · pith_short_12: MPJ356WR6QWK · pith_short_16: MPJ356WR6QWKEQ4S · pith_short_8: MPJ356WR

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/MPJ356WR6QWKEQ4SLIBWWTAC7E \
  | 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: 63d3befad1f42ca243925a036b4c02f900df1b8738c0848142b821a85dc50490

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f33efa922887ef9428024b79be3660c284a436f54f87f9e546a9aba7defb5e37",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-16T18:04:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1cd689f7c2c444b58ad16cda8fe827bcbd223a318c74245ab943f891c568c8f0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.05777",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}