Pith Number

pith:PYO5ATPK

pith:2011:PYO5ATPKUNKDEAXULVB4CQCFHV

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The Anna Karenina principle: A concept for the explanation of success in science

Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx

arxiv:1104.0807 v2 · 2011-04-05 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PYO5ATPKUNKDEAXULVB4CQCFHV}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T04:16:40.679899Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e1dd04deaa3543202f45d43c140453d725c55b396ec61a30710299d9c3e05d0

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.0807 · arxiv_version: 1104.0807v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.0807 · pith_short_12: PYO5ATPKUNKD · pith_short_16: PYO5ATPKUNKDEAXU · pith_short_8: PYO5ATPK

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/PYO5ATPKUNKDEAXULVB4CQCFHV \
  | 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: 7e1dd04deaa3543202f45d43c140453d725c55b396ec61a30710299d9c3e05d0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "205f1c0397cdb55ff60c1ef795bdb27b46458e14f5776beaeaf808c17ef2a80b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-05T10:48:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85fc66ce89bcfc50676e76e0a99d7d08bcad76f26b851a94c4f93af801ec7a74"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.0807",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}