Pith Number

pith:SFFTOZ6O

pith:2016:SFFTOZ6OF6OSBL6MHAVMBWNNIW

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A biology journal that can teach physicists a lesson in peer review

Raymond E. Goldstein

arxiv:1612.00241 v1 · 2016-12-01 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL · q-bio.CB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SFFTOZ6OF6OSBL6MHAVMBWNNIW}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:56:05.638628Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

914b3767ce2f9d20afcc382ac0d9ad4591bb6d96089591cf071fa13577688e61

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.00241 · arxiv_version: 1612.00241v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.00241 · pith_short_12: SFFTOZ6OF6OS · pith_short_16: SFFTOZ6OF6OSBL6M · pith_short_8: SFFTOZ6O

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/SFFTOZ6OF6OSBL6MHAVMBWNNIW \
  | 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: 914b3767ce2f9d20afcc382ac0d9ad4591bb6d96089591cf071fa13577688e61

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7e5441a65e36a2dc99bd913c808ce2be6c915e411e29ef684e7cc5b6d35f1179",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-01T13:37:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e886d6bf23595c9c32be06acaeba3b9df16b8901c1f43328d75f8f16cd8f7d22"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.00241",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}