Pith Number

pith:ELOJCFU5

pith:2016:ELOJCFU5BMFJTGNSBU3A4XJBSI

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The Solution to Science's Replication Crisis

Bruce Knuteson

arxiv:1609.03223 v1 · 2016-09-11 · q-fin.EC · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ELOJCFU5BMFJTGNSBU3A4XJBSI}

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:47.489412Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

22dc91169d0b0a9999b20d360e5d21922e836b250a544dc1b38fbfcbc97d1196

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.03223 · arxiv_version: 1609.03223v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.03223 · pith_short_12: ELOJCFU5BMFJ · pith_short_16: ELOJCFU5BMFJTGNS · pith_short_8: ELOJCFU5

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/ELOJCFU5BMFJTGNSBU3A4XJBSI \
  | 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: 22dc91169d0b0a9999b20d360e5d21922e836b250a544dc1b38fbfcbc97d1196

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6190f66be3f988d63e9890d0cca5045fc9d24fa558cdf8486f2c8a597320c002",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.EC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-11T22:15:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50261d0f9eff73e91d9c6430da052486f03231f45902016b1640ef495bb6421c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.03223",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}