Pith Number

pith:XWGF4ET5

pith:2016:XWGF4ET5HVIUO3YTJUK2YFGIDY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Leveraging Citation Networks to Visualize Scholarly Influence Over Time

Jason Portenoy, Jessica Hullman, Jevin D. West

arxiv:1611.07135 v2 · 2016-11-22 · cs.HC · cs.DL · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XWGF4ET5HVIUO3YTJUK2YFGIDY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:23:09.259110Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd8c5e127d3d51476f134d15ac14c81e34826933fd8cdd71985649d41d5c0d2d

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.07135 · arxiv_version: 1611.07135v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.07135 · pith_short_12: XWGF4ET5HVIU · pith_short_16: XWGF4ET5HVIUO3YT · pith_short_8: XWGF4ET5

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/XWGF4ET5HVIUO3YTJUK2YFGIDY \
  | 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: bd8c5e127d3d51476f134d15ac14c81e34826933fd8cdd71985649d41d5c0d2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a8486ae7d462f464fcede30f1fef86b8e094b7b8286feed981bdcc52b2ba465",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-22T03:17:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "56f037156593e9a7b6db902da4c949032b41a21406f53e2847115ecae1626359"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.07135",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}