Pith Number

pith:Z4FAFAU5

pith:2017:Z4FAFAU5SS2X7MNTPG2POHY6EZ

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Survey Research in Software Engineering: Problems and Strategies

Ahmad Nauman Ghazi, Harini Nekkanti, Kai Petersen, Sri Sai Vijay Raj Reddy

arxiv:1704.01090 v1 · 2017-04-04 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z4FAFAU5SS2X7MNTPG2POHY6EZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:10.568503Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf0a02829d94b57fb1b379b4f71f1e2665e3e5a12fce2d214f2b1088373bcebd

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.01090 · arxiv_version: 1704.01090v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.01090 · pith_short_12: Z4FAFAU5SS2X · pith_short_16: Z4FAFAU5SS2X7MNT · pith_short_8: Z4FAFAU5

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/Z4FAFAU5SS2X7MNTPG2POHY6EZ \
  | 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: cf0a02829d94b57fb1b379b4f71f1e2665e3e5a12fce2d214f2b1088373bcebd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0a28c4d262e686d86580ff558859f189436b472aec228041fb1c85d5f33e5652",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-04T16:23:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5485b8bf54debf2d5d4f2bf75cf99e889b849ab425f07355a80bee7144f52ec5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.01090",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}