Pith Number

pith:VJFTGZV5

pith:2012:VJFTGZV5X7NNJSEXOKEEIXK335

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Why does attention to web articles fall with time?

M.V. Simkin, V.P. Roychowdhury

arxiv:1202.3492 v2 · 2012-02-11 · cs.IR · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VJFTGZV5X7NNJSEXOKEEIXK335}

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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	2026-05-18T01:33:17.115121Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa4b3366bdbfdad4c8977288445d5bdf549eec10b55f18b197846c10747a2cb1

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.3492 · arxiv_version: 1202.3492v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.3492 · pith_short_12: VJFTGZV5X7NN · pith_short_16: VJFTGZV5X7NNJSEX · pith_short_8: VJFTGZV5

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/VJFTGZV5X7NNJSEXOKEEIXK335 \
  | 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: aa4b3366bdbfdad4c8977288445d5bdf549eec10b55f18b197846c10747a2cb1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e97455fc2c3534d98c7c0daa841f01a4c04073ae1c63e94f83b89c07d0d5cb9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-11T00:31:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42a9b0adaafc8e7261370f6d79569431a2daea9d4cba91468606f634544bbf22"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.3492",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}