Pith Number

pith:N2YV62JY

pith:2016:N2YV62JYNC2ZEBMAHKG6LFSZAL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Citation algorithms for identifying research milestones driving biomedical innovation

Jordan A. Comins, Loet Leydesdorff

arxiv:1611.01658 v1 · 2016-11-05 · 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{N2YV62JYNC2ZEBMAHKG6LFSZAL}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T01:00:04.745622Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6eb15f693868b59205803a8de5965902c2a265fc9e6555e5fcfa2e354362d354

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.01658 · arxiv_version: 1611.01658v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.01658 · pith_short_12: N2YV62JYNC2Z · pith_short_16: N2YV62JYNC2ZEBMA · pith_short_8: N2YV62JY

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/N2YV62JYNC2ZEBMAHKG6LFSZAL \
  | 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: 6eb15f693868b59205803a8de5965902c2a265fc9e6555e5fcfa2e354362d354

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "221d232e05f4b0f8816b5e8e7ebd141be657b81f4ff02b479d18f627573f9191",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-05T15:09:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75d3704abd2042b095a75ebeeaa7d3e5a2933d76f66a2cac3b31d0c186f88eb5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.01658",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}