Pith Number

pith:PPRHJIEQ

pith:2013:PPRHJIEQQZSXEDIQFBQQ47OECU

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The case for caution in predicting scientists' future impact

Alexander M. Petersen, Orion Penner, Raj K. Pan, Santo Fortunato

arxiv:1304.0627 v1 · 2013-04-02 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL · physics.data-an

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PPRHJIEQQZSXEDIQFBQQ47OECU}

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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	2026-05-18T03:29:14.847761Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7be274a0908665720d1028610e7dc41528fad5c777303dd556522c8440e38460

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.0627 · arxiv_version: 1304.0627v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.0627 · pith_short_12: PPRHJIEQQZSX · pith_short_16: PPRHJIEQQZSXEDIQ · pith_short_8: PPRHJIEQ

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/PPRHJIEQQZSXEDIQFBQQ47OECU \
  | 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: 7be274a0908665720d1028610e7dc41528fad5c777303dd556522c8440e38460

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c3044448c0af064e0534aabb86fbab0839870533dd6f0d00fa0814443e45e11",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-02T13:37:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cef4d291d14264da3cff368e163b6f403a02ff290ca15e45c3fc8e3ac6d3b793"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.0627",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}