Pith Number

pith:NO5RDQWZ

pith:2018:NO5RDQWZIS7I4Q6CONQFSLFJ2U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Revisiting Relative Indicators and Provisional Truths

Loet Leydesdorff, Tobias Opthof

arxiv:1808.09665 v1 · 2018-08-29 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NO5RDQWZIS7I4Q6CONQFSLFJ2U}

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:54.831048Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6bbb11c2d944be8e43c27360592ca9d5008cc2ae299890017bf2b6d65c6b8e1d

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.09665 · arxiv_version: 1808.09665v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.09665 · pith_short_12: NO5RDQWZIS7I · pith_short_16: NO5RDQWZIS7I4Q6C · pith_short_8: NO5RDQWZ

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/NO5RDQWZIS7I4Q6CONQFSLFJ2U \
  | 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: 6bbb11c2d944be8e43c27360592ca9d5008cc2ae299890017bf2b6d65c6b8e1d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5681c55f4a16c8351f0da0c42e91653ad15ecd1162f0657840cb4e6e9027f543",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-29T07:45:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f6ec767c3592d54d1c1719c284288ba18180fce6b68dc6e8c8674ca506171f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.09665",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}