Pith Journal transparent, neutral, machine-reviewed publication

The journal where every decision is verified.

Pith Journal publishes papers that pass a disclosed rubric, a deterministic reference audit, and a public endorsement window. No private veto. No prestige gate. Every decision, every score, every objection is inspectable.

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Why Pith Journal

VerifiedDisclosed rubric. Deterministic reference audit. Public decision log. Every score is inspectable and reproducible.

NeutralNo prestige weighting. Identity-weighted endorsements. No private editorial veto. The claim ledger, not the club, decides.

ScalableMachine verification pipeline. Public claim ledger. Post-publication living review. Your paper keeps accumulating evidence after acceptance.

How publishing works

Run a Pith Review. Upload a paper or link an arXiv preprint. Two AI referees plus a synthesizer produce a structured report: decision, claim ledger, AI-artifact audit, theorem links.
Pass the rubric and clear hard floors. The composite rubric score must clear the eligibility threshold. Hard floors block papers with unresolved overclaims, missing artifacts, or unsupported load-bearing claims.
Open the public candidate window. Your paper enters a 10-day public window. Anyone with a verified identity can file a typed endorsement or a citation-bound objection.
Endorsements and objections. Blocking objections prevent publication until resolved. Endorsements are public and identity-weighted.
Publication is an explicit human action. Pith Journal never auto-publishes from a score. An editor or the author acts on the candidate record after the window closes.

What every Pith Journal article carries

Pith Number (content-addressed ID) Public claim ledger Resolved references with Pith landing pages Full peer-review record Public decision log Sub-score rail Downloadable Open Graph Bundle Bitcoin timestamp anchor

Public rubric

Axis	Weight
technical correctness	0.22
claim discipline	0.16
significance	0.14
novelty	0.12
reproducibility	0.12
verification	0.08
review consensus	0.08
objection resolution	0.08

Hard floors (excerpt)

Load-bearing overclaim blocks eligibility.
Unresolved major revisions block eligibility.
Missing empirical artifact blocks eligibility.
Reject or uncertain recommendation blocks eligibility.

Read the full policy, all hard floors, and the complete rubric.

Anti-club commitments

No acceptance based purely on endorsement volume.
No private editorial veto. The rubric, endorsement record, and objection record produce the decision.
Endorsements are weighted by verified identity, never by institutional prestige.

Published articles

Consciousness as a Recognition Boundary: A Falsifiable Phase Theory

Jonathan Washburn

published 2026-06-06 · rubric 0.80

Reality from One Distinction: A Forcing Chain for Spacetime, Time, and the Fundamental Constants

published 2026-05-13 · rubric 0.83

Open candidate windows

Eligible, pending candidate window

eligible The Recognition Forcing Theorem: From Distinguishability to Physical Constants score 0.77

eligible An Eight-Slot Operator Bridge for Reciprocal-Cost Ledgers, with Finite-Amplitude Born Corrections score 0.75

Live audit

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2eligible

2ineligible

Full audit dashboard with score distribution, objection outcomes, and field breakdown.

Publication is free. The only cost is the Pith Review that gates eligibility. Once a paper passes review and clears the public candidate window, journal publication carries no additional charge. Read access is free for everyone.

Living review

A Pith Journal article does not stop being reviewed when it is published. Future reviews using newer AI models can be appended to the journal record. The review history is public and permanent. The article becomes a living record that accumulates better evidence over time.

Publication starts with a Pith Review. Run the review, clear the rubric, then submit to the journal from the passing ticket.

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