Pith Number

pith:6R2HMPGP

pith:2025:6R2HMPGPATSVPP5RVNV33MF25K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Do male leading authors retract more articles than female leading authors?

Er-Te Zheng, Hui-Zhen Fu, Mike Thelwall, Zhichao Fang

arxiv:2507.17127 v1 · 2025-07-23 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6R2HMPGPATSVPP5RVNV33MF25K}

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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	2026-07-05T11:42:01.744384Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f474763ccf04e557bfb1ab6bbdb0baeaa0e5f35c821b21db2491363574037d4a

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.17127 · arxiv_version: 2507.17127v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.17127 · pith_short_12: 6R2HMPGPATSV · pith_short_16: 6R2HMPGPATSVPP5R · pith_short_8: 6R2HMPGP

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/6R2HMPGPATSVPP5RVNV33MF25K \
  | 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: f474763ccf04e557bfb1ab6bbdb0baeaa0e5f35c821b21db2491363574037d4a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fbbd168bc92e9e372040004977635e90fa333f59bcf7fd68b431114c6b241216",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-23T02:04:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6bdc1dd6112aeccd1d2994a4475fba98dea3143d6e4858790abeac45e50c396a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.17127",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}