Pith Number

pith:5QMI6A56

pith:2025:5QMI6A563ARQ3HYH3U4SGO6KWH

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Research quality evaluation by AI in the era of Large Language Models: Advantages, disadvantages, and systemic effects

Mike Thelwall

arxiv:2506.07748 v1 · 2025-06-09 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5QMI6A563ARQ3HYH3U4SGO6KWH}

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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	2026-07-05T11:18:32.634689Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec188f03bed8230d9f07dd39233bcab1fafc2c89164a4ee49a5718950fbe6c5e

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.07748 · arxiv_version: 2506.07748v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.07748 · pith_short_12: 5QMI6A563ARQ · pith_short_16: 5QMI6A563ARQ3HYH · pith_short_8: 5QMI6A56

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/5QMI6A563ARQ3HYH3U4SGO6KWH \
  | 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: ec188f03bed8230d9f07dd39233bcab1fafc2c89164a4ee49a5718950fbe6c5e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2fc6956f712c284c06444ad662bbef1b3bc700445e07fc9cb961ba4a97348a7d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-09T13:32:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9f738d5e9e37b14e50ce7f6164f710b7e0bf12e971ecc2ab497c56f60a3848cf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.07748",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}