Pith Number

pith:UX2WI5RP

pith:2020:UX2WI5RPGUWWC6S6O7PUEXKKZQ

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A network approach to expertise retrieval based on path similarity and credit allocation

Luca Verginer, Massimo Riccaboni, Pietro Panzarasa, Xiancheng Li

arxiv:2009.13958 v1 · 2020-09-29 · cs.SI · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UX2WI5RPGUWWC6S6O7PUEXKKZQ}

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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	2026-07-05T01:38:46.850183Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a5f564762f352d617a5e77df425d4acc329926d8bda946225f20a75884c0e416

Aliases

arxiv: 2009.13958 · arxiv_version: 2009.13958v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2009.13958 · pith_short_12: UX2WI5RPGUWW · pith_short_16: UX2WI5RPGUWWC6S6 · pith_short_8: UX2WI5RP

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/UX2WI5RPGUWWC6S6O7PUEXKKZQ \
  | 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: a5f564762f352d617a5e77df425d4acc329926d8bda946225f20a75884c0e416

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6187251f22b811b05453a18d1d7cbc9da838d55db6002b92a67dbccd19b118c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2020-09-29T12:19:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "34dab9d411e7baa260a99ce3069e2d1817d5aa670e989294f9ac410d6fd2cdd1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2009.13958",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}