Pith Number

pith:RL5FCGZY

pith:2017:RL5FCGZY2SVQR3FJ6IQLBWXQK3

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Research Portfolio Analysis and Topic Prominence

Kevin W. Boyack, Richard Klavans

arxiv:1709.03453 v2 · 2017-09-11 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RL5FCGZY2SVQR3FJ6IQLBWXQK3}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:33:38.855309Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8afa511b38d4ab08eca9f220b0daf056fcf60de0bbff19aea906099d21b27548

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.03453 · arxiv_version: 1709.03453v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.03453 · pith_short_12: RL5FCGZY2SVQ · pith_short_16: RL5FCGZY2SVQR3FJ · pith_short_8: RL5FCGZY

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/RL5FCGZY2SVQR3FJ6IQLBWXQK3 \
  | 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: 8afa511b38d4ab08eca9f220b0daf056fcf60de0bbff19aea906099d21b27548

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "baf19b29532e616c7d6fbd5d07ec867d9b52a778377913c89b4bb9bd57eeaeea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-11T15:53:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8af8bdc70d95c398aeb75e03e8d3f00fd2ed865ba7ee5d892effc197915530cb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.03453",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}