Pith Number

pith:ZVHPAFVO

pith:2026:ZVHPAFVOHLM5MXQQBRCICSYP5O

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Dead Science Walking: Publication Bias and the AI Scientist Pipeline

Kargi Chauhan

arxiv:2606.04220 v1 · 2026-06-02 · cs.CE

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZVHPAFVOHLM5MXQQBRCICSYP5O}

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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	2026-06-04T01:08:59.043023Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cd4ef016ae3ad9d65e100c44814b0feb8d83968175865f574d2266fe75b7682a

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.04220 · arxiv_version: 2606.04220v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.04220 · pith_short_12: ZVHPAFVOHLM5 · pith_short_16: ZVHPAFVOHLM5MXQQ · pith_short_8: ZVHPAFVO

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/ZVHPAFVOHLM5MXQQBRCICSYP5O \
  | 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: cd4ef016ae3ad9d65e100c44814b0feb8d83968175865f574d2266fe75b7682a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a7c8c2f5fdd1f0357ebe3cc93164f3c8f33014251422704d1f886757409a2cf5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-02T21:15:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "419f817acaf95df11d4e76f140b92fc0c2b3a37a7d631388a97a43cdc83dd69c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.04220",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}