Pith Number

pith:VOKJ4E35

pith:2025:VOKJ4E35ONHNUGOTR53DIGESAV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Density, asymmetry and citation dynamics in scientific literature

Nathaniel Imel, Zachary Hafen

arxiv:2506.23366 v1 · 2025-06-29 · cs.DL · cs.CL · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VOKJ4E35ONHNUGOTR53DIGESAV}

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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	2026-07-05T11:29:20.505463Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab949e137d734eda19d38f76341892057f7e92dad95bf5641a95514345daa8b8

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.23366 · arxiv_version: 2506.23366v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.23366 · pith_short_12: VOKJ4E35ONHN · pith_short_16: VOKJ4E35ONHNUGOT · pith_short_8: VOKJ4E35

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/VOKJ4E35ONHNUGOTR53DIGESAV \
  | 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: ab949e137d734eda19d38f76341892057f7e92dad95bf5641a95514345daa8b8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed1e2997be3ff1376a4c933ab734c15ca84130e977a9fb9bf55fc30d1bc2b194",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-29T18:55:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78c47694a3c4e0554f4c335520471c2ed046dc5fa133a5ad27afdeffd6e1c30c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.23366",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}