Pith Number

pith:XI7MWK7M

pith:2007:XI7MWK7MC4XALJM5JWASLAKJLM

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A Quantitative Measure of Experimental Scientific Merit

Bruce Knuteson

arxiv:0712.3572 v1 · 2007-12-20 · physics.data-an · hep-ex · hep-ph · hep-th · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XI7MWK7MC4XALJM5JWASLAKJLM}

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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	2026-07-04T15:06:26.019109Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba3ecb2bec172e05a59d4d812581495b02521c778d75ea83e34f342ad9642336

Aliases

arxiv: 0712.3572 · arxiv_version: 0712.3572v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0712.3572 · pith_short_12: XI7MWK7MC4XA · pith_short_16: XI7MWK7MC4XALJM5 · pith_short_8: XI7MWK7M

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/XI7MWK7MC4XALJM5JWASLAKJLM \
  | 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: ba3ecb2bec172e05a59d4d812581495b02521c778d75ea83e34f342ad9642336

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af8ab348a97583bff3487efd146c7344e7872023d26a52bb5f4484bc19949fb4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ex",
      "hep-ph",
      "hep-th",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2007-12-20T21:21:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b4a2d359599d28fe973cafbb3fcf4bb866039df12ac59b6f8687933292cb769"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0712.3572",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}