Pith Number

pith:24JQNKK4

pith:2017:24JQNKK4YQIQ7KCXCA6CG4YBAZ

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Citation histories of papers: sometimes the rich get richer, sometimes they don't

Ken A. Dill, Michael J. Hazoglu, Steven S. Skiena, Vivek Kulkarni

arxiv:1703.04746 v1 · 2017-03-14 · cs.DL

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{24JQNKK4YQIQ7KCXCA6CG4YBAZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:39.336006Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d71306a95cc4110fa857103c2373010661ec695ee972c3ef496093f80df351b9

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.04746 · arxiv_version: 1703.04746v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.04746 · pith_short_12: 24JQNKK4YQIQ · pith_short_16: 24JQNKK4YQIQ7KCX · pith_short_8: 24JQNKK4

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/24JQNKK4YQIQ7KCXCA6CG4YBAZ \
  | 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: d71306a95cc4110fa857103c2373010661ec695ee972c3ef496093f80df351b9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63af341b8dfcce2912335447581262dfcf68d3a2672063d4dc044a7a0184a9f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-14T22:08:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c58c6e6a81bf45090a0b41aaf250682e6565661607873e6d6f66dcabdc93036"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.04746",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}