Scholarpedia: bridging the gap between academic research and public knowledge
Scholarpedia is a reliable encyclopedia Research companies and research-oriented academic institutions should encourage their researchers and students respectively to visit Scholarpedia , a general-purpose encyclopedia that deals with topics and issues of a highly academic, scientific, or technical nature. In other words, Scholarpedia is a Wikipedia for sages. Based in San Diego, California, United States, Scholarpedia was established by neuroscientist and researcher Eugene M. Izhikevich. Scholarpedia contributors are renowned faculty and professors of various world academic institutions. Scholarpedia requires its contributors to use their legal names as their usernames, which ensures that Scholarpedia readers can easily identify who edits or curates the articles. Scholarpedia implements something called a digital object identifier, which ensures long-term accessibility and traceability of articles. Sc