Pith Number

pith:YLIA4U4I

pith:2008:YLIA4U4IHWZNCU3MW7CUBQ36X4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The first-mover advantage in scientific publication

M. E. J. Newman

arxiv:0809.0522 v1 · 2008-09-02 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YLIA4U4IHWZNCU3MW7CUBQ36X4}

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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	2026-05-18T03:08:38.724376Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2d00e53883db2d1536cb7c540c37ebf0c47850ae51a4b9f05d6b6c06ac934da

Aliases

arxiv: 0809.0522 · arxiv_version: 0809.0522v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0809.0522 · pith_short_12: YLIA4U4IHWZN · pith_short_16: YLIA4U4IHWZNCU3M · pith_short_8: YLIA4U4I

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/YLIA4U4IHWZNCU3MW7CUBQ36X4 \
  | 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: c2d00e53883db2d1536cb7c540c37ebf0c47850ae51a4b9f05d6b6c06ac934da

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ce49be940031234e99dde673c9c4fd2548c57ee742cbadc4b44cfb306b3fc747",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-09-02T21:33:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "949f27b669ba6847464152ef4cdae4835eea860610a03cfa71fc6da79bd1b785"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0809.0522",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}