Pith Number

pith:D7BZXQGM

pith:2026:D7BZXQGM73TYO7P2K3D7NWHPBU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Issue with Special Issues: when Guest Editors Publish in Support of Self

Mark Austin Hanson, Pablo G\'omez Barreiro, Paolo Crosetto

arxiv:2601.07563 v2 · 2026-01-12 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D7BZXQGM73TYO7P2K3D7NWHPBU}

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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	2026-06-12T00:07:48.802872Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1fc39bc0ccfee7877dfa56c7f6d8ef0d392c98451ba7db0462f18efe51aa78e9

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.07563 · arxiv_version: 2601.07563v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.07563 · pith_short_12: D7BZXQGM73TY · pith_short_16: D7BZXQGM73TYO7P2 · pith_short_8: D7BZXQGM

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/D7BZXQGM73TYO7P2K3D7NWHPBU \
  | 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: 1fc39bc0ccfee7877dfa56c7f6d8ef0d392c98451ba7db0462f18efe51aa78e9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a283640773dba356532f8c30a4e89be0e60711e4a37790f897bba899edb05ba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-12T14:18:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d27dfd3864b7874d596b31de098520d824a721c8f38c9d824bf5a6554c480c08"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2601.07563",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}