Pith Number

pith:PH6USYQD

pith:2014:PH6USYQDB6PLVJEWGTO3C6GXDZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Empirical Patterns in Google Scholar Citation Counts

Jonathan P. Bowen, Peter T. Breuer

arxiv:1401.1861 v1 · 2014-01-08 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PH6USYQDB6PLVJEWGTO3C6GXDZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:31.675542Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

79fd4962030f9ebaa49634ddb178d71e569cb550b11caaba960d999b9a79dc17

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.1861 · arxiv_version: 1401.1861v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.1861 · pith_short_12: PH6USYQDB6PL · pith_short_16: PH6USYQDB6PLVJEW · pith_short_8: PH6USYQD

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/PH6USYQDB6PLVJEWGTO3C6GXDZ \
  | 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: 79fd4962030f9ebaa49634ddb178d71e569cb550b11caaba960d999b9a79dc17

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3e878401f60161091ec4da9d51ec824377a6553a990e5ea553ba5f010fa8a6dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-08T23:49:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e7438f81579a3fc2f3e71062e1613066e8a54c9556a72d4410e9e56cb9beb0a7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.1861",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}