Pith Number

pith:YZMMEDFV

pith:2010:YZMMEDFVYMZ5CNVOTTZL3MC4BZ

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The Local Emergence and Global Diffusion of Research Technologies: An Exploration of Patterns of Network Formation

Ismael Rafols, Loet Leydesdorff

arxiv:1011.3120 v2 · 2010-11-13 · cs.DL · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YZMMEDFVYMZ5CNVOTTZL3MC4BZ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:30:25.414110Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c658c20cb5c333d136ae9cf2bdb05c0e4c0565465976f88175129896776dbfea

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.3120 · arxiv_version: 1011.3120v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.3120 · pith_short_12: YZMMEDFVYMZ5 · pith_short_16: YZMMEDFVYMZ5CNVO · pith_short_8: YZMMEDFV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YZMMEDFVYMZ5CNVOTTZL3MC4BZ \
  | 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: c658c20cb5c333d136ae9cf2bdb05c0e4c0565465976f88175129896776dbfea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7690b4ac1a8dbc4662dccd2a22d483e259e49b959a5a7153c905af8fc806da6b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-13T09:29:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a8951ee3ed4620d751e6e2a247556975a3025b6d1dba1aa43f669397cfb07f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.3120",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}