Pith Number

pith:RIWTGWXA

pith:2025:RIWTGWXA67YWBFAM6WM5U2STUF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Waters We Swim In: Replicability and the Evolution of Scientific Norms

Hope Bretscher, N\'uria Mu\~noz Gargant\'e

arxiv:2501.05788 v2 · 2025-01-10 · physics.soc-ph · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RIWTGWXA67YWBFAM6WM5U2STUF}

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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	2026-07-05T10:34:42.077960Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a2d335ae0f7f160940cf599da6a53a1705f37c638628a0efc21f028408daf20

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.05788 · arxiv_version: 2501.05788v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.05788 · pith_short_12: RIWTGWXA67YW · pith_short_16: RIWTGWXA67YWBFAM · pith_short_8: RIWTGWXA

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/RIWTGWXA67YWBFAM6WM5U2STUF \
  | 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: 8a2d335ae0f7f160940cf599da6a53a1705f37c638628a0efc21f028408daf20

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "902433383596aac3eff9f7c73f9e6187deb79d4cfc67d32e7ab2331184a59076",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-10T08:44:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "09c69a9cad93dac3825284d8aa4b9f58620e10b562f2b68589e6403e7f09bde3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.05788",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}