Pith Number

pith:MWIV56TP

pith:2025:MWIV56TPK44UW33YW2EO5VRTNP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences

Ilka Agricola, Luis Vega, Lynn Heller, Moritz Schubotz, Peter Taylor, Wil Schilders

arxiv:2509.07257 v2 · 2025-09-08 · math.HO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MWIV56TPK44UW33YW2EO5VRTNP}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Excessive use, ill use and misuse of Bibliometrics

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T12:09:46.439293Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65915efa6f57394b6f78b688eed6336be4a24fdd9911458b2f922dbc7429f886

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.07257 · arxiv_version: 2509.07257v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.07257 · pith_short_12: MWIV56TPK44U · pith_short_16: MWIV56TPK44UW33Y · pith_short_8: MWIV56TP

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/MWIV56TPK44UW33YW2EO5VRTNP \
  | 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: 65915efa6f57394b6f78b688eed6336be4a24fdd9911458b2f922dbc7429f886

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b65a11073613ee5d0d4925e76c9339f94806eba20ea348501b7800c3fe103cc3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-08T22:19:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dc346cac5f2c8bc767e584e5eedb7ef257c7f021d001b6d5912bd0343821c64d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.07257",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}