Pith Number

pith:WHD3HKXI

pith:2011:WHD3HKXIKVIYFSZF6PHSF2TNGQ

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How citation boosts promote scientific paradigm shifts and Nobel Prizes

Amin Mazloumian, Dirk Helbing, Santo Fortunato, Sergi Lozano, Young-Ho Eom

arxiv:1105.1917 v1 · 2011-05-10 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WHD3HKXIKVIYFSZF6PHSF2TNGQ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:22:30.298473Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b1c7b3aae8555182cb25f3cf22ea6d3411a89c1f12baedc6b46611df0646c08f

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.1917 · arxiv_version: 1105.1917v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.1917 · pith_short_12: WHD3HKXIKVIY · pith_short_16: WHD3HKXIKVIYFSZF · pith_short_8: WHD3HKXI

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/WHD3HKXIKVIYFSZF6PHSF2TNGQ \
  | 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: b1c7b3aae8555182cb25f3cf22ea6d3411a89c1f12baedc6b46611df0646c08f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "11c235b6e65e0f57311e82c8f4001c667968cd5ee3bc4d8d497cde8c1eeddf48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-10T11:30:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "01989f6b3de6b2391e79ee382abebc6ed7138a8777f855290e1a51bc4a2d3e7a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.1917",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}