Pith Number

pith:LVJ4YYDI

pith:2025:LVJ4YYDIAM7R5C4MEAHRLX5Z4Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Content Creation to Citation Inflation: A GenAI Case Study

Chris J. Mitchell, Haitham S. Al-Sinani

arxiv:2503.23414 v1 · 2025-03-30 · cs.DL · cs.AI · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LVJ4YYDIAM7R5C4MEAHRLX5Z4Q}

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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	2026-07-05T10:41:35.966155Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d53cc6068033f1e8b8c200f15dfb9e416ef5371f11c12bab2078881fee49ef8

Aliases

arxiv: 2503.23414 · arxiv_version: 2503.23414v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.23414 · pith_short_12: LVJ4YYDIAM7R · pith_short_16: LVJ4YYDIAM7R5C4M · pith_short_8: LVJ4YYDI

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/LVJ4YYDIAM7R5C4MEAHRLX5Z4Q \
  | 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: 5d53cc6068033f1e8b8c200f15dfb9e416ef5371f11c12bab2078881fee49ef8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c1c5b11a3bcfbb694b73dee19fabc7bdc376a6202e87628f26ef73d916197e6a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-03-30T12:17:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43345b421ea7a10580b157baad213f3f0a4c80e9d846aa809fd79da1037ef1b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2503.23414",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}