Pith Number

pith:S4DHE7TD

pith:2010:S4DHE7TDSRR2KNL4VK3RN3DORO

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Globalization and Glassy Ideality of the Web of Twentieth Century Science

J. C. Phillips

arxiv:1008.3928 v1 · 2010-08-23 · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S4DHE7TDSRR2KNL4VK3RN3DORO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:41:54.492919Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9706727e639463a5357caab716ec6e8bb5a004b847433fc174fba4e6df283405

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.3928 · arxiv_version: 1008.3928v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.3928 · pith_short_12: S4DHE7TDSRR2 · pith_short_16: S4DHE7TDSRR2KNL4 · pith_short_8: S4DHE7TD

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/S4DHE7TDSRR2KNL4VK3RN3DORO \
  | 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: 9706727e639463a5357caab716ec6e8bb5a004b847433fc174fba4e6df283405

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b38671a1aa5e2b0d4118e07925428b8e2a86a2ba0e62e81012a744de707e9fb7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-23T22:01:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "06a351cd799b74def6745062a4f2cb05602bd5a8573f0378c7f992a65b37cf49"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.3928",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}