Pith Number

pith:WWXYE7QF

pith:2022:WWXYE7QFELORI4DK2GURPJDJCZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Rise of GitHub in Scholarly Publications

Emily Escamilla, Martin Klein, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle, Talya Cooper, Vicky Rampin

arxiv:2208.04895 v1 · 2022-08-09 · cs.DL

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WWXYE7QFELORI4DK2GURPJDJCZ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-05T04:47:20.332472Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5af827e0522dd14706ad1a917a46916495f382c9ef1ded75209470b954bcb74

Aliases

arxiv: 2208.04895 · arxiv_version: 2208.04895v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2208.04895 · pith_short_12: WWXYE7QFELOR · pith_short_16: WWXYE7QFELORI4DK · pith_short_8: WWXYE7QF

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/WWXYE7QFELORI4DK2GURPJDJCZ \
  | 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: b5af827e0522dd14706ad1a917a46916495f382c9ef1ded75209470b954bcb74

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b53efdd99de7f1f30425fbc7fb3ca1e141d57e8052c9bf59d7101b2e4ffb7feb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2022-08-09T16:56:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5819c2e5e928d7a3efba855616238786ba8d45ce13ad086f7085d73361abcb4e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2208.04895",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}