Pith Number

pith:O7P7JZSS

pith:2010:O7P7JZSS2HX4AUPMYKQEK7K3SR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovering author impact: A PageRank perspective

Bloomington, Erjia Yan, IN, Indiana University, Information Science, United States), Ying Ding (School of Library

arxiv:1012.4870 v1 · 2010-12-22 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O7P7JZSS2HX4AUPMYKQEK7K3SR}

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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	2026-05-18T04:32:45.099237Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

77dff4e652d1efc051ecc2a0457d5b944329e0946d24e1ad79fc5550d7cc886f

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.4870 · arxiv_version: 1012.4870v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.4870 · pith_short_12: O7P7JZSS2HX4 · pith_short_16: O7P7JZSS2HX4AUPM · pith_short_8: O7P7JZSS

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/O7P7JZSS2HX4AUPMYKQEK7K3SR \
  | 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: 77dff4e652d1efc051ecc2a0457d5b944329e0946d24e1ad79fc5550d7cc886f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0be8d76e9939c62fcaf2c059ea9fcf200693d9810e8c9f58bbdd265de707069",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-22T03:05:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fb2204eb475e647ac6effa5cb8333fcd5293858b8a95dae656830f8d036a5515"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.4870",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}