Pith Number

pith:Z756EWC4

pith:2018:Z756EWC45OZDDVLPWEE75ZPY7G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Do Citations and Readership Identify Seminal Publications?

Christopher G. Stahl, Drahomira Herrmannova, Petr Knoth, Robert M. Patton

arxiv:1802.04853 v1 · 2018-02-13 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z756EWC45OZDDVLPWEE75ZPY7G}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:23:22.446702Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cffbe2585cebb231d56fb109fee5f8f9b3de702a379deffe068ecf0d99d004ef

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.04853 · arxiv_version: 1802.04853v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.04853 · pith_short_12: Z756EWC45OZD · pith_short_16: Z756EWC45OZDDVLP · pith_short_8: Z756EWC4

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/Z756EWC45OZDDVLPWEE75ZPY7G \
  | 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: cffbe2585cebb231d56fb109fee5f8f9b3de702a379deffe068ecf0d99d004ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2bb67ff78e89976dd8be0a71982676cce07af04f7d35ef673551c3f39a6dc8fe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-13T20:53:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6a6050a6ed5103a38632dfb6e536815fa4befcab4b34401c332f2af02892e81c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.04853",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}