Pith Number

pith:2ZJ4LXR6

pith:2026:2ZJ4LXR6J323NQWVUD2M4RU32K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Judges matter more than papers in post-publication research assessment

Alex Jones, Lutz Bornmann, Robert Ward

arxiv:2607.09783 v1 · 2026-07-08 · cs.DL

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2ZJ4LXR6J323NQWVUD2M4RU32K}

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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	2026-07-14T00:18:35.526928Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d653c5de3e4ef5b6c2d5a0f4ce469bd2a32262f6033c6b597eaab36ccfba8c96

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.09783 · arxiv_version: 2607.09783v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.09783 · pith_short_12: 2ZJ4LXR6J323 · pith_short_16: 2ZJ4LXR6J323NQWV · pith_short_8: 2ZJ4LXR6

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/2ZJ4LXR6J323NQWVUD2M4RU32K \
  | 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: d653c5de3e4ef5b6c2d5a0f4ce469bd2a32262f6033c6b597eaab36ccfba8c96

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b4678a2b17422e5a649f4b7b014eb13c3d21dbe58d0d4ae79be234a3e6f287e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-08T13:11:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb348dbacd388664e18ba997bb4576bad81266c9cdc8550b8f83e406cf168b20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.09783",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}