Pith Number

pith:SBK2OD26

pith:2017:SBK2OD26NE5ZUMALZ7HCHLDRII

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Citation-based clustering of publications using CitNetExplorer and VOSviewer

Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck

arxiv:1702.03411 v1 · 2017-02-11 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SBK2OD26NE5ZUMALZ7HCHLDRII}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:53.853641Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9055a70f5e693b9a300bcfce23ac714218b3aa5b9068338bfedf0135d04ff5ab

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.03411 · arxiv_version: 1702.03411v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.03411 · pith_short_12: SBK2OD26NE5Z · pith_short_16: SBK2OD26NE5ZUMAL · pith_short_8: SBK2OD26

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/SBK2OD26NE5ZUMALZ7HCHLDRII \
  | 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: 9055a70f5e693b9a300bcfce23ac714218b3aa5b9068338bfedf0135d04ff5ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f1be88a442eed8f09709e31ccabac5a32c7133e533a512a20cb9e8820a8d06d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-11T11:25:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ca2364a1ea5c7252493b8b553e578cf1082cd533f42c78a6b864b8fb81b5a0e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.03411",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}