Pith Number

pith:TR7GMASY

pith:2020:TR7GMASYDST34SXYIP2PGCE4QR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Research in Global Software Engineering: A Systematic Snapshot

Bilal Raza, Stephen G. MacDonell, Tony Clear

arxiv:2012.14534 v1 · 2020-12-29 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TR7GMASYDST34SXYIP2PGCE4QR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T02:02:59.150908Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9c7e6602581ca7be4af843f4f3089c8448819145a51947092ef8f5c98995bab6

Aliases

arxiv: 2012.14534 · arxiv_version: 2012.14534v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2012.14534 · pith_short_12: TR7GMASYDST3 · pith_short_16: TR7GMASYDST34SXY · pith_short_8: TR7GMASY

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/TR7GMASYDST34SXYIP2PGCE4QR \
  | 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: 9c7e6602581ca7be4af843f4f3089c8448819145a51947092ef8f5c98995bab6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66e18d1f1bd9796b52865c097dbb186ca66f940fb2b66dc33092ce3568672a81",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2020-12-29T00:03:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "70c531ca307dfd996176fa528355f81b8d896af773718940e87a73fe59910d9d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2012.14534",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}