Falsehoods Programmers believe about DOIs

DOI s, or Digital Object Identifiers, are everywhere, for a&#xA;given value of &rsquo;everywhere&rsquo;. They are the identifiers used to identify and link&#xA;research outputs, and a lot more besides. &#xA; Humans are good at spotting patterns, and with something as ubiquitous as DOIs,&#xA;there are plenty of patterns to spot. However, with hundreds of millions of DOIs&#xA;and decades of history,…