Pith Number

pith:XXWQBWIK

pith:2016:XXWQBWIK4BAKHO2NXUH5OS46F6

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Identification of milestone papers through time-balanced network centrality

Manuel Sebastian Mariani, Matus Medo, Yi-Cheng Zhang

arxiv:1608.08414 v3 · 2016-08-30 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL · cs.IR · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XXWQBWIK4BAKHO2NXUH5OS46F6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:59:57.331461Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bded00d90ae040a3bb4dbd0fd74b9e2f81c5cb8a06fd85a2079458f049224ad3

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.08414 · arxiv_version: 1608.08414v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.08414 · pith_short_12: XXWQBWIK4BAK · pith_short_16: XXWQBWIK4BAKHO2N · pith_short_8: XXWQBWIK

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/XXWQBWIK4BAKHO2NXUH5OS46F6 \
  | 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: bded00d90ae040a3bb4dbd0fd74b9e2f81c5cb8a06fd85a2079458f049224ad3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0e92dd3b841a478533042c5ed737d82dac56205e75d54282b3f04950c51b2df3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "cs.IR",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-30T12:11:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54a4c78cb1b3c61d662b0f0c78ff174b2486d350c7998d0e0335ab23111330fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.08414",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}