Pith Number

pith:7XOETLFG

pith:2026:7XOETLFGQ377XHJ4AUSMUT2OMW

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One in Eight OpenAlex Abstracts Has Integrity Issues

Seorin Kim, Vincent Ginis, Vincent Holst

arxiv:2605.20168 v1 · 2026-05-19 · cs.DL · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7XOETLFGQ377XHJ4AUSMUT2OMW}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-20T02:06:05.950001Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fddc49aca686fffb9d3c0524ca4f4e659493cb2238aea1c22fc24f8a96e2608f

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.20168 · arxiv_version: 2605.20168v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.20168 · pith_short_12: 7XOETLFGQ377 · pith_short_16: 7XOETLFGQ377XHJ4 · pith_short_8: 7XOETLFG

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/7XOETLFGQ377XHJ4AUSMUT2OMW \
  | 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: fddc49aca686fffb9d3c0524ca4f4e659493cb2238aea1c22fc24f8a96e2608f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "159e1970a0d53ccd2342b03732a0b09d29de6a0a5d0f6b87bef124bc1e13cf3f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-19T17:53:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25d2e3498e70f5d9116acb8f9440461d4a2979bcc5501e343df13d018bdd0195"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.20168",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}