Pith Number

pith:QTK4DHBS

pith:2017:QTK4DHBSOLADYQTRP4KKMQP3TQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mendeley readership as a filtering tool to identify highly cited publications

Paul Wouters, Rodrigo Costas, Zohreh Zahedi

arxiv:1703.07104 v1 · 2017-03-21 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QTK4DHBSOLADYQTRP4KKMQP3TQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:11.315473Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

84d5c19c3272c03c42717f14a641fb9c32702d71aa64c4286d8897b715cec711

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.07104 · arxiv_version: 1703.07104v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07104 · pith_short_12: QTK4DHBSOLAD · pith_short_16: QTK4DHBSOLADYQTR · pith_short_8: QTK4DHBS

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/QTK4DHBSOLADYQTRP4KKMQP3TQ \
  | 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: 84d5c19c3272c03c42717f14a641fb9c32702d71aa64c4286d8897b715cec711

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0fb0f4f7627fcfc4b1a0be847f5c0e26ac86b448aa27f3c9fbfa27c69e7068bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-21T09:29:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "74c8412c157370ea3043dbc945754858bc2b610668715f44dfba081fbb564cc3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07104",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}