Pith Number

pith:Y3Y4L3E6

pith:2012:Y3Y4L3E6I4IEHTD5627QQJ26TM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bibliometric Perspectives on Medical Innovation using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) of PubMed

Daniele Rotolo, Ismael Rafols, Loet Leydesdorff

arxiv:1203.1006 v2 · 2012-03-05 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y3Y4L3E6I4IEHTD5627QQJ26TM}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:58:24.205399Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6f1c5ec9e471043cc7df6bf08275e9b0357489d4c1498288d4e4ba0d904aaac

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.1006 · arxiv_version: 1203.1006v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.1006 · pith_short_12: Y3Y4L3E6I4IE · pith_short_16: Y3Y4L3E6I4IEHTD5 · pith_short_8: Y3Y4L3E6

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/Y3Y4L3E6I4IEHTD5627QQJ26TM \
  | 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: c6f1c5ec9e471043cc7df6bf08275e9b0357489d4c1498288d4e4ba0d904aaac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96452065b37947f9974500a84f9b46c1bebe40563fef5d4c558b77e340e26434",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-05T18:58:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8707a31dfd29b99921f86832f1c8289b54755ac048ff410c3ec0899b45403911"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.1006",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}