Pith Number

pith:43GSXVSY

pith:2026:43GSXVSYRCQWBHDTVP3PKF3RJN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A&A community survey on the future of scientific publishing: Credibility over speed, fairness over profit, human judgment over automation

Ar\=unas Ku\v{c}inskas, Charlotte Van Rooyen, David Elbaz, Eva Villaver, Jo\~ao Alves, Laszlo L. Kiss, Marc Audard, Pierre-Alain Duc, Thierry Forveille, Tiago Pereira

arxiv:2606.27447 v1 · 2026-06-25 · cs.DL · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{43GSXVSYRCQWBHDTVP3PKF3RJN}

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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	2026-06-29T00:14:06.581947Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6cd2bd65888a1609c73abf6f517714b435af7e6d935c0513084a60ec5c5c69b

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.27447 · arxiv_version: 2606.27447v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.27447 · pith_short_12: 43GSXVSYRCQW · pith_short_16: 43GSXVSYRCQWBHDT · pith_short_8: 43GSXVSY

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/43GSXVSYRCQWBHDTVP3PKF3RJN \
  | 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: e6cd2bd65888a1609c73abf6f517714b435af7e6d935c0513084a60ec5c5c69b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66df7acd6adec68676be7afb83c22f890ce104647a73fa85e3d000cc33732353",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-25T18:18:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e41198bb3792e4427187f6907fcbafa98c86823abb92c9523f01029a7099e8d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.27447",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}