Pith Number

pith:5QWZIUDN

pith:2012:5QWZIUDNAXXZ5QTQ3LIVKJL42M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting

Daniel Torres-Salinas, Emilio Delgado Lopez-Cozar, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia

arxiv:1212.0638 v2 · 2012-12-04 · 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{5QWZIUDNAXXZ5QTQ3LIVKJL42M}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T03:32:58.527695Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec2d94506d05ef9ec270dad155257cd3139b3ebf597cd90a95a447edc3a92d61

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.0638 · arxiv_version: 1212.0638v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.0638 · pith_short_12: 5QWZIUDNAXXZ · pith_short_16: 5QWZIUDNAXXZ5QTQ · pith_short_8: 5QWZIUDN

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/5QWZIUDNAXXZ5QTQ3LIVKJL42M \
  | 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: ec2d94506d05ef9ec270dad155257cd3139b3ebf597cd90a95a447edc3a92d61

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a776222b1bb1905c537a509c4ea855b3036837cc60780c7f1ebe1f87dbebe497",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-04T08:30:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "879f20d871753eb5cd642f474cbf870278070de58906295e589b1f855d599f0b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.0638",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}