Pith Number

pith:XAS5HWGY

pith:2013:XAS5HWGY4ODSUR3GPHXPQSZJH7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Predictability of Future Impact in Science

Alexander M. Petersen, Kimmo Kaski, Orion Penner, Raj Kumar Pan, Santo Fortunato

arxiv:1306.0114 v2 · 2013-06-01 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XAS5HWGY4ODSUR3GPHXPQSZJH7}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:08:37.346617Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b825d3d8d8e3872a476679eef84b293ff701284e2c86941fa20dbfd82361589b

Aliases

arxiv: 1306.0114 · arxiv_version: 1306.0114v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1306.0114 · pith_short_12: XAS5HWGY4ODS · pith_short_16: XAS5HWGY4ODSUR3G · pith_short_8: XAS5HWGY

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/XAS5HWGY4ODSUR3GPHXPQSZJH7 \
  | 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: b825d3d8d8e3872a476679eef84b293ff701284e2c86941fa20dbfd82361589b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8b4b91abbc26305572cba5439b12e34d2af0e64169fbaff9480c5e82d8a6c9e9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-06-01T14:51:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9e0d67f4321d6d78ae4569b18872e742d667afc402b414cb261e875e6da10346"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1306.0114",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}