Pith Number

pith:RIFPUA4Y

pith:2016:RIFPUA4YILAHP2ZM3VINLQYC2S

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The sum of it all: revealing collaboration patterns by combining authorship and acknowledgements

Adele Paul-Hus, Maxime Sainte-Marie, Philippe Mongeon, Vincent Lariviere

arxiv:1611.08550 v1 · 2016-11-25 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RIFPUA4YILAHP2ZM3VINLQYC2S}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:56:38.650907Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a0afa039842c077eb2cdd50d5c302d4b033308859781dc6f42d0688c24b09df

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.08550 · arxiv_version: 1611.08550v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.08550 · pith_short_12: RIFPUA4YILAH · pith_short_16: RIFPUA4YILAHP2ZM · pith_short_8: RIFPUA4Y

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/RIFPUA4YILAHP2ZM3VINLQYC2S \
  | 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: 8a0afa039842c077eb2cdd50d5c302d4b033308859781dc6f42d0688c24b09df

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d68dce72d0057397fea0dae326b5c88fd038bc307dde727c83719f54079ec15",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-25T18:51:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1256713e9ca8e13f14667df6315ed0f6ccaef38b799beb2c8ff22113115b94c1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.08550",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}