Pith Number

pith:VG255BQK

pith:2015:VG255BQKT7W3IP7EQKZL7D2A3C

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Modelling the Structure and Dynamics of Science Using Books

Andrea Scharnhorst, Katy Borner, Michael Ginda

arxiv:1503.03287 v1 · 2015-03-11 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VG255BQKT7W3IP7EQKZL7D2A3C}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T02:25:03.883774Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9b5de860a9fedb43fe482b2bf8f40d8af1e3a1d49378a6f9dad7a1a16d5f0fa

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.03287 · arxiv_version: 1503.03287v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.03287 · pith_short_12: VG255BQKT7W3 · pith_short_16: VG255BQKT7W3IP7E · pith_short_8: VG255BQK

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/VG255BQKT7W3IP7EQKZL7D2A3C \
  | 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: a9b5de860a9fedb43fe482b2bf8f40d8af1e3a1d49378a6f9dad7a1a16d5f0fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5caeeeb3e7d07a7ebda0ed3021f800983ccf50835c3908b95ecf39f99fc7c61f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-11T11:53:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d6de1b992c143630398e46419b4204889018b59735c3a453beeb71101920a41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.03287",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}