Pith Number

pith:SISTED54

pith:2008:SISTED544ZTS3XP3B64D34ZLZO

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Quantitative and empirical demonstration of the Matthew effect in a study of career longevity

Alexander M. Petersen, H. Eugene Stanley, Jae-Suk Yang, Woo-Sung Jung

arxiv:0806.1224 v5 · 2008-06-06 · physics.pop-ph · physics.data-an · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SISTED544ZTS3XP3B64D34ZLZO}

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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	2026-05-18T04:26:45.980941Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9225320fbce6672dddfb0fb83df32bcbbe7b21fd5366f4360d6f56d90121686b

Aliases

arxiv: 0806.1224 · arxiv_version: 0806.1224v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0806.1224 · pith_short_12: SISTED544ZTS · pith_short_16: SISTED544ZTS3XP3 · pith_short_8: SISTED54

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SISTED544ZTS3XP3B64D34ZLZO \
  | 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: 9225320fbce6672dddfb0fb83df32bcbbe7b21fd5366f4360d6f56d90121686b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "84c854a5823708df3402e4e3e7ff75c48174398099969bb1ee1ec7d392f76be4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.pop-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-06-06T20:25:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a9dd8cf8102ba832d7d9937dc67bdde483bf9dce892f45540a8b092f95289191"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0806.1224",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}