Pith Number

pith:TRA45O3X

pith:2016:TRA45O3X43UM5IGQS4BZDT7HMP

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Sleeping Beauties Cited in Patents: Is there also a Dormitory of Inventions?

Anthony F. J. van Raan

arxiv:1604.05750 v1 · 2016-04-19 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TRA45O3X43UM5IGQS4BZDT7HMP}

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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	2026-05-18T01:16:37.290819Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9c41cebb77e6e8cea0d0970391cfe763d75f4e7e72053f9be912eb9ac87bd1f7

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.05750 · arxiv_version: 1604.05750v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.05750 · pith_short_12: TRA45O3X43UM · pith_short_16: TRA45O3X43UM5IGQ · pith_short_8: TRA45O3X

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/TRA45O3X43UM5IGQS4BZDT7HMP \
  | 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: 9c41cebb77e6e8cea0d0970391cfe763d75f4e7e72053f9be912eb9ac87bd1f7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bab389036c06993c4674bc07a3d18873a7aa96a3bf187b2fdcf5c42b70dbbdeb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-19T21:05:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0daceb670848baf55a7392b5634143171be9e9c5c841069de36c9e93499940aa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.05750",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}