Pith Number

pith:R5UBPIT6

pith:2012:R5UBPIT6E6OB6QR4I6QJINZDEF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Role of Social Networks in Information Diffusion

Cameron Marlow, Eytan Bakshy, Itamar Rosenn, Lada Adamic

arxiv:1201.4145 v2 · 2012-01-19 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R5UBPIT6E6OB6QR4I6QJINZDEF}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T04:01:23.690039Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f6817a27e279c1f423c47a09437232174c341ace1ca2b145fafd530b0ca979a

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.4145 · arxiv_version: 1201.4145v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.4145 · pith_short_12: R5UBPIT6E6OB · pith_short_16: R5UBPIT6E6OB6QR4 · pith_short_8: R5UBPIT6

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/R5UBPIT6E6OB6QR4I6QJINZDEF \
  | 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: 8f6817a27e279c1f423c47a09437232174c341ace1ca2b145fafd530b0ca979a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1082aec4451e118aba9faa95c8d0ebdffac4b5ad7a2108e48e8af42d46e810cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-19T18:50:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9f00b302dd9aba1bea1105eaf935d838f425b493ca3ec861a6aaed0bc31355cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.4145",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}