Type of site
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Internet encyclopedia |
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Available in | English |
Created by | Eugene M. Izhikevich |
Slogan(s) | The peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia |
Website | scholarpedia |
Alexa rank | 146,374 (February 2013[update]) |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional (required to edit pages) |
Users | about 13,000 user |
Launched | February 5, 2006 |
Current status | 671 peer-reviewed articles, 1700 in progress (December 2010) |
Content license
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CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
Scholarpedia is an English-language online -based encyclopedia with features commonly associated with open-access online academic journals, which aims to have quality content.
Scholarpedia articles are written by invited expert authors and are subject to peer review. 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 ISSN 1941-6016). 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 is also the encyclopedia's editor-in-chief.
Scholarpedia content is grouped into separate "encyclopedias". Currently seven of these are described as "focal areas": Astrophysics, Celestial mechanics, Computational neuroscience, Computational intelligence, Dynamical systems, Physics and Touch - but a further 12 include such diverse area such as Play Science and Models of brain disorders and by February 2015, Scholarpedia had 2,342 content pages.