Pith Number

pith:U7WX5VI6

pith:2008:U7WX5VI6XDRHFMTGZU43ZGJ63Y

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The effects of aging of scientists on their publication and citation patterns

Benoit Macaluso, Jean-Pierre Robitaille, Vincent Lariviere, Yves Gingras

arxiv:0810.4292 v1 · 2008-10-23 · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U7WX5VI6XDRHFMTGZU43ZGJ63Y}

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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	2026-05-18T02:15:23.499174Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a7ed7ed51eb8e272b266cd39bc993ede201953542e2c11e2cdda7fbffb3b0fec

Aliases

arxiv: 0810.4292 · arxiv_version: 0810.4292v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0810.4292 · pith_short_12: U7WX5VI6XDRH · pith_short_16: U7WX5VI6XDRHFMTG · pith_short_8: U7WX5VI6

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/U7WX5VI6XDRHFMTGZU43ZGJ63Y \
  | 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: a7ed7ed51eb8e272b266cd39bc993ede201953542e2c11e2cdda7fbffb3b0fec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d3371832f50c2aa96ecf30bd920d6b4de7f97c22f51fce3a3b8ae6c077666399",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-10-23T14:29:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce48d6eb0d3cfc30708e7d83296c5a2b84c2e1dd713b6f8700b7ad3d81ccaefe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0810.4292",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}