Pith Number

pith:D2Z2BEE2

pith:2024:D2Z2BEE2APQVKEQWDKKF53SDJE

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What we should learn from pandemic publishing

Francesco Rinaldi, Francesco Tudisco, Maimuna S. Majumder, Marie-Laure Charpignon, Sagar Kumar, Santo Fortunato, Sara Venturini, Satyaki Sikdar

arxiv:2410.01838 v1 · 2024-09-24 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL · q-bio.OT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D2Z2BEE2APQVKEQWDKKF53SDJE}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T09:14:56.526293Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1eb3a0909a03e15512161a945eee4349061e04d54cecd162ca504cf8f3a26580

Aliases

arxiv: 2410.01838 · arxiv_version: 2410.01838v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.01838 · pith_short_12: D2Z2BEE2APQV · pith_short_16: D2Z2BEE2APQVKEQW · pith_short_8: D2Z2BEE2

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/D2Z2BEE2APQVKEQWDKKF53SDJE \
  | 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: 1eb3a0909a03e15512161a945eee4349061e04d54cecd162ca504cf8f3a26580

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "34cf8b7f3f81a43d725d201199b54d165df4eee742ec22f9f15b8b428344a8a6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "q-bio.OT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-09-24T23:27:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9c3f73a6a87ce011ece5766e1a239fa310e8945bf99f558bdfe2b8cce8f32c25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2410.01838",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}