Pith Number

pith:AEGJB4JK

pith:2012:AEGJB4JKIQFO3W6V77KO4QUJSU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scientometrics

Loet Leydesdorff, Sta\v{s}a Milojevi\'c

arxiv:1208.4566 v2 · 2012-08-22 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AEGJB4JKIQFO3W6V77KO4QUJSU}

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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	2026-05-18T03:12:35.142564Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

010c90f12a440aeddbd5ffd4ee4289951e2294cc0881739839ee5efe6ca7e87b

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.4566 · arxiv_version: 1208.4566v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.4566 · pith_short_12: AEGJB4JKIQFO · pith_short_16: AEGJB4JKIQFO3W6V · pith_short_8: AEGJB4JK

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/AEGJB4JKIQFO3W6V77KO4QUJSU \
  | 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: 010c90f12a440aeddbd5ffd4ee4289951e2294cc0881739839ee5efe6ca7e87b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c4f07e5dd1662ec3bd6330863132f54d2f1842755235bb6e6f8336756c43c54",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-22T17:37:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48d78ae04490de9c6ecb837cc804a04023d60f75cf51ce94b619c3adbbc58833"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.4566",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}