Pith Number

pith:T4FYBJPS

pith:2017:T4FYBJPSXB6NV7BCMDWHIKHKXB

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Hot Streaks in Artistic, Cultural, and Scientific Careers

Chaoming Song, C. Lee Giles, Dashun Wang, Lu Liu, Roberta Sinatra, Yang Wang

arxiv:1712.01804 v2 · 2017-12-05 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T4FYBJPSXB6NV7BCMDWHIKHKXB}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:41.048115Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9f0b80a5f2b87cdafc2260ec7428eab85f7acc2369810000f3cba8d731525b1c

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.01804 · arxiv_version: 1712.01804v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.01804 · pith_short_12: T4FYBJPSXB6N · pith_short_16: T4FYBJPSXB6NV7BC · pith_short_8: T4FYBJPS

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/T4FYBJPSXB6NV7BCMDWHIKHKXB \
  | 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: 9f0b80a5f2b87cdafc2260ec7428eab85f7acc2369810000f3cba8d731525b1c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a5e650f3f6bcce667b99d3a637f7335e2a7a133995ec987953bf60281beb1e1d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-05T18:32:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0b3627eecbe7e7987999bab826a8932c0676aa7993bf01b2ed0adf521ba4a0c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.01804",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}