Pith Number

pith:V77NX4AP

pith:2016:V77NX4APLV2PWJJEHIYMTZKEQO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A simple centrality index for scientific social recognition

George C. Cardoso, Leonardo D. H. Soares, Osame Kinouchi

arxiv:1609.05273 v4 · 2016-09-17 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V77NX4APLV2PWJJEHIYMTZKEQO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:10.314269Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

affedbf00f5d74fb25243a30c9e544839efd5dc171947fd74c80e9252db61a02

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.05273 · arxiv_version: 1609.05273v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.05273 · pith_short_12: V77NX4APLV2P · pith_short_16: V77NX4APLV2PWJJE · pith_short_8: V77NX4AP

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/V77NX4APLV2PWJJEHIYMTZKEQO \
  | 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: affedbf00f5d74fb25243a30c9e544839efd5dc171947fd74c80e9252db61a02

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c05cd5c6611db90ba988b4682e3678b3ca6ce97b60eef8e60e19ebcd4545e2e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-17T02:25:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c9bdb61dfe80546bc1789aee4c1c49386e4243f0511320bc320755df4f8becda"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.05273",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}