Pith Number

pith:QVRVNPHC

pith:2018:QVRVNPHCH2MMXVLCCKR6ST3GHU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Prestige drives epistemic inequality in the diffusion of scientific ideas

Aaron Clauset, Allison C. Morgan, Dimitrios J. Economou, Samuel F. Way

arxiv:1805.09966 v2 · 2018-05-25 · cs.SI · cs.CY · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QVRVNPHCH2MMXVLCCKR6ST3GHU}

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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	2026-05-17T23:51:05.810989Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

856356bce23e98cbd56212a3e94f663d0da743ffba12046a24435142bfce6e7f

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.09966 · arxiv_version: 1805.09966v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.09966 · pith_short_12: QVRVNPHCH2MM · pith_short_16: QVRVNPHCH2MMXVLC · pith_short_8: QVRVNPHC

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/QVRVNPHCH2MMXVLCCKR6ST3GHU \
  | 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: 856356bce23e98cbd56212a3e94f663d0da743ffba12046a24435142bfce6e7f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ce55c5b94cf94162cb699c7467812ea03bfcae07fb9a7d9f28e3590006b3d0c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-25T03:36:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b86f248e789c676c758b1d884ec9d3055a81daee8d0b86e1433a6ab0b77ac40e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.09966",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}