Pith Number

pith:EFIHVJST

pith:2017:EFIHVJSTAIIKBQZXALHTMA64GG

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On choosing meaningful research projects in the natural sciences

Isabel Lipartito, Philip G Judge, Roberto Casini

arxiv:1711.09068 v1 · 2017-11-24 · physics.ed-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EFIHVJSTAIIKBQZXALHTMA64GG}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:41.298284Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

21507aa6530210a0c33702cf3603dc318583714be4eab7d3d209ed0fbc6f39ad

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.09068 · arxiv_version: 1711.09068v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.09068 · pith_short_12: EFIHVJSTAIIK · pith_short_16: EFIHVJSTAIIKBQZX · pith_short_8: EFIHVJST

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/EFIHVJSTAIIKBQZXALHTMA64GG \
  | 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: 21507aa6530210a0c33702cf3603dc318583714be4eab7d3d209ed0fbc6f39ad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f38f18ae2cae33e9e1661fc2b1239aaf64e17c35798f61e8f4ecb38f9f8a2df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-24T18:24:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4e434a109f3f441ac040b6007e250e3f4c7db6fb2ed687592e8294a642fccaa3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.09068",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}