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Pith Number

pith:YZ5EKOG7

pith:2014:YZ5EKOG72VTLB233SDOW3WGSI2
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Who creates trends in online social media: The crowd or opinion leaders?

Jichang Zhao, Ke Xu, Leihan Zhang

arxiv:1409.0210 v3 · 2014-08-31 · cs.SI · cs.CY · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YZ5EKOG72VTLB233SDOW3WGSI2}

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4 Citations open
5 Replications open
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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.
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First computed 2026-05-18T02:43:25.755946Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c67a4538dfd566b0eb7b90dd6dd8d24693affc5795a8db77a2d50944d7b49248

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.0210 · arxiv_version: 1409.0210v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.0210 · pith_short_12: YZ5EKOG72VTL · pith_short_16: YZ5EKOG72VTLB233 · pith_short_8: YZ5EKOG7
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YZ5EKOG72VTLB233SDOW3WGSI2 \
  | 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: c67a4538dfd566b0eb7b90dd6dd8d24693affc5795a8db77a2d50944d7b49248
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "daf4401bd4a97bf8ad916445d0a6292e364077545425f8d639ea8b41704dc6bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-31T11:40:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cefc0a85738348265205bb4619fb8bac4c83429e4c33cd786fe193f3b5ff2371"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.0210",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}