Scholarpedia articles are written by invited or approved expert authors and are subject to peer review.[3]Scholarpedia lists the real names and affiliations of all authors, curators and editors involved in an article: however, the peer review process (which can suggest changes or additions, and has to be satisfied before an article can appear) is anonymous. Scholarpedia articles are stored in an online repository, and can be cited as conventional journal articles (Scholarpedia has the ISSN number ISSN1941-6016). Scholarpedia's citation system includes support for revision numbers.
The project was created in February 2006 by Eugene M. Izhikevich, while he was a researcher at the Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California. Izhikevich also serves as the encyclopedia's editor-in-chief.[1]
As of November 2018[update], Scholarpedia has 1,804 content pages and 18,149 registered users,[14] while as of November 2021[update], it has 1,812 peer-reviewed articles.[15]
Scholarpedia's maintenance and server costs is currently funded by Brain Corporation,[16]arobotics company which Izhikevich is the co-founder and CEO of.[17] As stated on Scholarpedia's Frequently Asked Questions page, the company is also able to "benefit from Scholarpedia's extensive coverage of topics in computational neuroscience".
To ensure that the articles are written by experts, authors of the various articles in Scholarpedia are either invited by the editor-in-chief or other curators, or selected by a public election. For example, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger were nominated for the article on Wikipedia.[18] As of May 2009[update], the list of authors included four Fields Medalists and sixteen Nobel Prize winners.[19] Registered users must provide their full real name, and a recognized affiliation to an academic institution. Only registered users can edit an article, and those edits are subject to approval by the curator of the article, who is typically the author.[20] Curatorship is transferable. Users have a curator index attribute which is incremented or decremented by various activities and which affects the user's capabilities on the website.
After October 20, 2011, anyone can propose an article for Scholarpedia, but articles must be sponsored by Editors or Curators before the article can be published.[21]
Scholarpedia uses the same wiki engineasWikipedia, MediaWiki, with modifications to support voting on revisions. The software's development is done privately.[25]
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