Pith Number

pith:ZIBDZPMD

pith:2013:ZIBDZPMDMYVFLEFSCCXAGTGNLG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Characterizing scientific production and consumption in Physics

Alessandro Vespignani, Bruno Goncalves, Fabio Ciulla, Nicola Perra, Qian Zhang

arxiv:1302.6569 v1 · 2013-02-26 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZIBDZPMDMYVFLEFSCCXAGTGNLG}

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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	2026-05-18T03:28:28.986042Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ca023cbd83662a5590b210ae034ccd599f721e36e064b5bf8268be4e3e8742c2

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.6569 · arxiv_version: 1302.6569v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.6569 · pith_short_12: ZIBDZPMDMYVF · pith_short_16: ZIBDZPMDMYVFLEFS · pith_short_8: ZIBDZPMD

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/ZIBDZPMDMYVFLEFSCCXAGTGNLG \
  | 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: ca023cbd83662a5590b210ae034ccd599f721e36e064b5bf8268be4e3e8742c2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3cdd1759794596b3b1bf2c409e4e7b9010705bf4e77e5398088e7a3451b5507",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-26T20:33:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3c4f9c302eac8917e0807600f8cb160d775faa9881789649c0d4b396cf30d77"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.6569",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}