Pith Number

pith:UCSBXRYB

pith:2012:UCSBXRYBCCVLYJKM2HADLS2OOL

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In science "there is no bad publicity": Papers criticized in comments have high scientific impact

Filippo Radicchi

arxiv:1209.4997 v2 · 2012-09-22 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UCSBXRYBCCVLYJKM2HADLS2OOL}

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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	2026-05-18T03:41:19.935893Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a0a41bc70110aabc254cd1c035cb4e72ebad34effec3b9fb9b2fc61e57cd272d

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.4997 · arxiv_version: 1209.4997v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.4997 · pith_short_12: UCSBXRYBCCVL · pith_short_16: UCSBXRYBCCVLYJKM · pith_short_8: UCSBXRYB

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/UCSBXRYBCCVLYJKM2HADLS2OOL \
  | 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: a0a41bc70110aabc254cd1c035cb4e72ebad34effec3b9fb9b2fc61e57cd272d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "73321282ba54f99a8129dc4fbe8707df6e625a4ccbc12e5968dcb643b73500ef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-22T16:07:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a90b2cf9047a75966a75b6f68f8f9f166a5553060c1923dae5c577bcc29db30a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.4997",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}