Pith Number

pith:BY4MHIQ4

pith:2014:BY4MHIQ4MBBTO7HASLKGWJHX7T

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Return on citation: a consistent metric to evaluate papers, journals and researchers

Tiancheng Li

arxiv:1412.8420 v1 · 2014-12-29 · 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{BY4MHIQ4MBBTO7HASLKGWJHX7T}

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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	2026-05-18T02:30:23.326522Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e38c3a21c6043377ce092d46b24f7fccc8a1e130f228ee071904eff63657124

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.8420 · arxiv_version: 1412.8420v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.8420 · pith_short_12: BY4MHIQ4MBBT · pith_short_16: BY4MHIQ4MBBTO7HA · pith_short_8: BY4MHIQ4

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/BY4MHIQ4MBBTO7HASLKGWJHX7T \
  | 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: 0e38c3a21c6043377ce092d46b24f7fccc8a1e130f228ee071904eff63657124

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e086221b23cfe94ce094da0076866c8d8a809658281526892066820b8eceb6e6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-29T18:44:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "025701e72fadcef14924dcdba6d976dc080f4c1c3e00d2fd722d1860dc243e03"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.8420",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}