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Izhikevich (Editor-in-Chief)<sup id="cite_ref-editor-in-chief_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-editor-in-chief-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">URL</th><td class="infobox-data url"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.scholarpedia.org">www<wbr />.scholarpedia<wbr />.org</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commercial</th><td class="infobox-data">No</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registration</th><td class="infobox-data">Optional (required to edit pages)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Registered_user" title="Registered user">Users</a></th><td class="infobox-data">19,133 registered users (December 2022<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scholarpedia&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>)<sup id="cite_ref-statistics-dec-2022_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statistics-dec-2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">February 5, 2006<span class="noprint">; 19 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2006-02-05</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status</th><td class="infobox-data category">1,816 peer-reviewed articles (December 2022<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scholarpedia&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>)<sup id="cite_ref-statistics-dec-2022_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statistics-dec-2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Content license</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Creative_Commons_license" title="Creative Commons license">CC BY-NC-SA 3.0</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISSN" title="ISSN">ISSN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:1941-6016">1941-6016</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Scholarpedia</b></i> is an English-language <a href="/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki">wiki</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Online_encyclopedia" title="Online encyclopedia">online encyclopedia</a> with features commonly associated with <a href="/wiki/Open_access_(publishing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Open access (publishing)">open-access</a> online <a href="/wiki/Academic_journal" title="Academic journal">academic journals</a>, which aims to have quality content in science and medicine. </p><p><i>Scholarpedia</i> articles are written by invited or approved expert authors and are subject to <a href="/wiki/Peer_review" title="Peer review">peer review</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Scholarpedia</i> 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. <i>Scholarpedia</i> articles are stored in an online repository, and can be <a href="/wiki/Citation" title="Citation">cited</a> as conventional journal articles (<i>Scholarpedia</i> has the <a href="/wiki/ISSN" title="ISSN">ISSN</a> number <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output 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(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:1941-6016">1941-6016</a>). <i>Scholarpedia</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s citation system includes support for revision numbers. </p><p>The project was created in February 2006 by Eugene M. Izhikevich, while he was a researcher at the <a href="/wiki/Neurosciences_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Neurosciences Institute">Neurosciences Institute</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Diego,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Diego, California">San Diego, California</a>. Izhikevich also serves as the encyclopedia's editor-in-chief.<sup id="cite_ref-editor-in-chief_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-editor-in-chief-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scope">Scope</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scholarpedia&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Scope"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scholarpedia_main_page.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Scholarpedia_main_page.png/220px-Scholarpedia_main_page.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Scholarpedia_main_page.png/330px-Scholarpedia_main_page.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Scholarpedia_main_page.png/440px-Scholarpedia_main_page.png 2x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption><i>Scholarpedia</i> <a href="/wiki/Home_page" title="Home page">main page</a></figcaption></figure> <p><i>Scholarpedia</i> content is grouped into separate "encyclopedias". As of August 2023<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scholarpedia&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, seven of these are described as "focal areas": </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Astrophysics" title="Astrophysics">Astrophysics</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celestial_mechanics" title="Celestial mechanics">Celestial mechanics</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Computational_neuroscience" title="Computational neuroscience">Computational neuroscience</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Computational_intelligence" title="Computational intelligence">Computational intelligence</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dynamical_systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Dynamical systems">Dynamical systems</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">Physics</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somatosensory_system" title="Somatosensory system">Touch</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Other encyclopedias include diverse areas such as <a href="/wiki/Play_(activity)" title="Play (activity)">play science</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and models of <a href="/wiki/Neurological_disorder" title="Neurological disorder">brain disorders</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of November 2018<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scholarpedia&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, <i>Scholarpedia</i> had 1,804 content pages and 18,149 registered users,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while as of November 2021<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scholarpedia&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, it had 1,812 peer-reviewed articles.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Funding">Funding</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scholarpedia&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Funding"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Scholarpedia</i>'s maintenance and server costs is currently funded by Brain Corporation,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a <a href="/wiki/Robotics" title="Robotics">robotics</a> company which Izhikevich is the co-founder and CEO of.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As stated on <i>Scholarpedia</i>'s Frequently Asked Questions page, the company is also able to "benefit from <i>Scholarpedia</i>'s extensive coverage of topics in computational neuroscience". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Authorship">Authorship</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scholarpedia&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Authorship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>To ensure that the articles are written by experts, authors of the various articles in <i>Scholarpedia</i> are either invited by the editor-in-chief or other curators, or selected by a public election. For example, <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a> and <a href="/wiki/Larry_Sanger" title="Larry Sanger">Larry Sanger</a> were nominated for the article on Wikipedia.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of May 2009<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scholarpedia&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, the list of authors included four <a href="/wiki/Fields_Medalists" class="mw-redirect" title="Fields Medalists">Fields Medalists</a> and sixteen <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize" title="Nobel Prize">Nobel Prize</a> winners.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <i>curator</i> of the article, who is typically the author.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Curatorship is transferable. Users have a <i>curator index</i> attribute which is incremented or decremented by various activities and which affects the user's capabilities on the website. </p><p>After October 20, 2011, anyone can propose an article for <i>Scholarpedia</i>, but articles must be sponsored by Editors or Curators before the article can be published.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Copyright">Copyright</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scholarpedia&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Copyright"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Articles are available online without charge for non-commercial use, but may not be copied in bulk. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Authors are credited on the article page and in the suggested citation formats.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2008 <i>Scholarpedia</i> changed their licensing policy and started accepting articles under the <a href="/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License" title="GNU Free Documentation License">GNU Free Documentation License</a> and the <a href="/wiki/CC-BY-NC-ND" class="mw-redirect" title="CC-BY-NC-ND">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike</a> 3.0 license, in addition to the earlier system in which the author gives a non-exclusive license directly to <i>Scholarpedia</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Software">Software</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scholarpedia&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Software"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Scholarpedia</i> uses the same <a href="/wiki/Wiki_software" title="Wiki software">wiki engine</a> as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="/wiki/MediaWiki" title="MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a>, with modifications to support voting on revisions. 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