Scholarpedia:Scholar Index

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Each user has a Scholar Index that measures his/her overall impact on Scholarpedia and endows the user with certain privileges.

User rights and privileges

User status / Scholar Index	elect authors	edit articles	nominate authors	create new articles	initiate election	author articles	review articles	curate articles
unregistered / 0	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
registered / 0	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-
registered user with scholar index > 0 becomes a scholar
Scholar / 1	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	-
Scholar / 25	+	+	+	+	+	(+) temp. disabled	-	-
Scholar / 50	+	+	+	+	+	(+) temp. disabled	+	-
Scholar with index 100 becomes a Curator of Scholarpedia
Curator	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Curators can also invite other scientists to become curators of Scholarpedia.
An elected author becomes a Curator of Scholarpedia when his/her article is peer reviewed and accepted.

Scholar index is set to 0 for newly registered users. It is incremented by 1 when users are invited to become scholars or Curators. It is also affected by the following activities:

• +0.1. Vote for the candidate who eventually accepts the responsibility to write the article, i.e., becomes its author. The Scholar index of all supporters of the author is increased by 0.1, so that these voters have stronger voice in future elections.
• +1. Nomination of the candidate who eventually accepts the responsibility to write the article.
• +2. Initiation of a successful elections of authors for an article.
• +5. Reviewing of an article submitted to the Peer Review Forum.
• From -10 to +10. Revision of an article. All revisions of articles are evaluated by their curators on the scale from mostly wrong (-10) to irrelevant (-1) to improvement (+1) to major improvement (+4) to major contribution (+10). These are aimed to discourage spammers and reward useful contributors.

Thus, the higher the Scholar Index, the more contribution this user has made, hence the more important the voice of this person is in deciding the future of Scholarpedia (see list of top scholars).