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Type of site | Online encyclopedia |
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Available in | English |
Editor | Eugene M. Izhikevich (Editor-in-Chief)[1] |
URL | scholarpedia |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional (required to edit pages) |
Users | 19,133 registered users (December 2022[update])[2] |
Launched | February 5, 2006 |
Current status | 1,816 peer-reviewed articles (December 2022[update])[2] |
Content license | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
ISSN | 1941-6016 |
Scholarpedia is an English-language wiki-based online encyclopedia with features commonly associated with open-access online academic journals, which aims to have quality content in science and medicine.
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 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 also serves as the encyclopedia's editor-in-chief.[1]