Scholarpedia:Co-author eponymous article

Many articles in Scholarpedia are written by eponymous authors, that is, the authors who discovered phenomena, invented new concepts, proved theorems, and the scientific community honored these people by naming the results after them. For example, Scholarpedia has articles (see bigger list)

• Anosov Diffeomorphisms by Dmitri Anosov
• Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction by Anatol M. Zhabotinsky
• Chua Circuit by Leon Chua
• Cramér-Rao bound by Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
• Fano inequality by Bob Fano (Bob is 90)
• FitzHugh-Nagumo Model by Richard FitzHugh
• Hilbert-Huang Transform by Norden E. Huang
• Hopfield Network by John J. Hopfield
• Kohonen Network by Teuvo Kohonen
• Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy by Yakov Sinai
• Morris water maze by Richard Morris
• Petri net by Carl Adam Petri
• Rossler Attractor by Otto Rossler
• Smale Horseshoe by Steve Smale
• Viterbi algorithm by Andrew J. Viterbi
• Zinn-Justin equation by Jean Zinn-Justin

As a graduate student, you probably know at least one expert who had an eponymous result. We encourage you to get in touch with such an expert and team up to contribute an article to Scholarpedia. Not only will you help the expert to write the article, and Scholarpedia to provide the best possible source of information on the topic, but you will also improve your CV with a peer-reviewed publication co-authored with a famous person (plus, you will have something to brag about to your grandchildren).

To reserve and co-author an eponymous article, send an email to Editor-in-chief@scholarpedia.org with the following information:

• The title of the article
• The number of Google hits you get if you search for the title using quotes (e.g., "Hopfield network", not just Hopfield network). There should be more than 1,000 hits, or else the result is considered to be too recent or too narrow in scope.
• Your Scholarpedia username
• Your eponymous co-author username (his university email must be confirmed, so that we can validate his identity)
• URL of your co-author's university webpage which lists his email address.

You are welcome to help your co-author register with Scholarpedia, but it is important that he confirms his email, so that we can validate his intentions to co-author the article with you.

Upon confirmation of the number of google hits and the email of the eponymous author, the editor-in-chief will reserve the article for both of you and you will be given 2 months to finish it and submit to the peer-review forum. You will decide on the order of authors among yourselves.