Pith Number

pith:NSVFXXXN

pith:2024:NSVFXXXNO5EDXP7N3ISCE6KNAY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

What is wrong with MDPI: Is it a predator or a serious competitor?

Pasi Fr\"anti

arxiv:2411.08051 v1 · 2024-11-05 · cs.DL

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NSVFXXXNO5EDXP7N3ISCE6KNAY}

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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	2026-07-05T09:34:40.708045Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6caa5bdeed77483bbfedda2422794d0617b13b8771ccf8261d8b82dc21749ac9

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.08051 · arxiv_version: 2411.08051v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.08051 · pith_short_12: NSVFXXXNO5ED · pith_short_16: NSVFXXXNO5EDXP7N · pith_short_8: NSVFXXXN

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/NSVFXXXNO5EDXP7N3ISCE6KNAY \
  | 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: 6caa5bdeed77483bbfedda2422794d0617b13b8771ccf8261d8b82dc21749ac9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "78051449ffdfca75d39a6936558bf682e2e8ce07c0ad64ef1a8ec0149c59aaa9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-05T13:44:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ce765441bd7952a215848bb5dff3cb8b0717416357f0f61b103678af5c081fc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2411.08051",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}