Pith Number

pith:VZ6HLSVZ

pith:2021:VZ6HLSVZNI75JMRPNDHGKORWUG

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Understanding How and Why Developers Seek and Analyze API-related Opinions

Foutse Khomh, Gias Uddin, Latifa Guerrouj, Olga Baysal

arxiv:2102.08495 v1 · 2021-02-16 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VZ6HLSVZNI75JMRPNDHGKORWUG}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T02:16:03.577095Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae7c75cab96a3fd4b22f68ce653a36a1b1cf77add3705c6e84ae95e4347e13e7

Aliases

arxiv: 2102.08495 · arxiv_version: 2102.08495v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.08495 · pith_short_12: VZ6HLSVZNI75 · pith_short_16: VZ6HLSVZNI75JMRP · pith_short_8: VZ6HLSVZ

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/VZ6HLSVZNI75JMRPNDHGKORWUG \
  | 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: ae7c75cab96a3fd4b22f68ce653a36a1b1cf77add3705c6e84ae95e4347e13e7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f31b9950c0aeb2a581a8e153a663f4d10ecaa5e46c564dbc6b91e313f05f09d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2021-02-16T23:25:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e3fe084d31805502f77d5cf722f5c10e8d002b3a81858c9a327f979da816fe98"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2102.08495",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}