Pith Number

pith:PYLL2G32

pith:2018:PYLL2G32DP3OENEJWSOTZNPXTQ

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Dimensions: re-discovering the ecosystem of scientific information

Emilio Delgado Lopez-Cozar, Enrique Orduna-Malea

arxiv:1804.05365 v1 · 2018-04-15 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PYLL2G32DP3OENEJWSOTZNPXTQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:28.280099Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e16bd1b7a1bf6e23489b49d3cb5f79c037e33f6a20da118eb76bee39fc27497

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.05365 · arxiv_version: 1804.05365v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.05365 · pith_short_12: PYLL2G32DP3O · pith_short_16: PYLL2G32DP3OENEJ · pith_short_8: PYLL2G32

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/PYLL2G32DP3OENEJWSOTZNPXTQ \
  | 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: 7e16bd1b7a1bf6e23489b49d3cb5f79c037e33f6a20da118eb76bee39fc27497

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c2d45fef0464d4de789c49f1b22c6d342cde61e561b838e8df71bf8c12df150",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-15T15:10:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee7fe1250c48a3e609032863bb9cc12d01fed483a3bcd4a9c3ef1c8d5248d450"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.05365",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}