Pith Number

pith:V6OIPVWS

pith:2017:V6OIPVWSGFOQYUBQVLX65L53PQ

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A two-dimensional index to quantify both scientific research impact and scope

F. Lechenault, M. Adda-Bedia

arxiv:1706.01882 v2 · 2017-06-06 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V6OIPVWSGFOQYUBQVLX65L53PQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:39.093421Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af9c87d6d2315d0c5030aaefeeafbb7c11117abdbbe1802064ae69d7903a67f7

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.01882 · arxiv_version: 1706.01882v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.01882 · pith_short_12: V6OIPVWSGFOQ · pith_short_16: V6OIPVWSGFOQYUBQ · pith_short_8: V6OIPVWS

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/V6OIPVWSGFOQYUBQVLX65L53PQ \
  | 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: af9c87d6d2315d0c5030aaefeeafbb7c11117abdbbe1802064ae69d7903a67f7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9edac4eb9a1c70c6a3df3ab5edfeaf9ef6f4f71a87274894927ea921ec7f23a3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-06T17:23:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9e62013f4d4f09f64c1958998cc91fbb5d1be66812847945e95b423d7be406f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.01882",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}