Pith Number

pith:Y7J7RLYR

pith:2017:Y7J7RLYRLGSQF6NTSSSA6WHNWE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Characterizing in-text citations in scientific articles: A large-scale analysis

Giovanni Colavizza, Kevin W. Boyack, Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck

arxiv:1710.03094 v1 · 2017-10-09 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y7J7RLYRLGSQF6NTSSSA6WHNWE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:27.100519Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c7d3f8af1159a502f9b394a40f58edb11f181b65bdfd9f8f7761ea20882d9a76

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.03094 · arxiv_version: 1710.03094v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.03094 · pith_short_12: Y7J7RLYRLGSQ · pith_short_16: Y7J7RLYRLGSQF6NT · pith_short_8: Y7J7RLYR

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/Y7J7RLYRLGSQF6NTSSSA6WHNWE \
  | 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: c7d3f8af1159a502f9b394a40f58edb11f181b65bdfd9f8f7761ea20882d9a76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17e80aedf65576091a5d8115180a31c6ae5f41a63ca00cfa7f19f18cd55b35aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-09T13:49:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54e1103742c6efc2e078972e585788e0da274854151e8f07c04c74ef9769f1bb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.03094",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}