Pith Number

pith:Q2XSC22O

pith:2017:Q2XSC22O2FTI6PCPOBDW4JSAFK

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The Closer the Better: Similarity of Publication Pairs at Different Co-Citation Levels

Giovanni Colavizza, Kevin W. Boyack, Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck

arxiv:1707.03076 v4 · 2017-07-10 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q2XSC22O2FTI6PCPOBDW4JSAFK}

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:55.743956Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86af216b4ed1668f3c4f70476e26402aac550777758bb75c675e1ac8faa33349

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.03076 · arxiv_version: 1707.03076v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.03076 · pith_short_12: Q2XSC22O2FTI · pith_short_16: Q2XSC22O2FTI6PCP · pith_short_8: Q2XSC22O

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/Q2XSC22O2FTI6PCPOBDW4JSAFK \
  | 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: 86af216b4ed1668f3c4f70476e26402aac550777758bb75c675e1ac8faa33349

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "996459d3bfec84e576bcabc11a886d8df3e55fcb556214f7a9a3d5fc0057fd5d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-10T22:27:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "06f822b13d8871172c9f2ff4179b8ef1071a27429a2f1ef4708a02c3812b4674"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.03076",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}