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Scholarpedia: The Peer Reviewed Encyclopedia
Editor in Chief Eugene M. Izhikevich
Scholarpedia.com
2006
URL: www.scholarpedia.com
Last visited October 2009
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Keywords Electronic media, Encyclopedias, Sciences
Review DOI 10.1108/09504121011030878
Scholarpedia, created in 2006 is a dynamic open-access online free encyclopedia that is peer-reviewed. The focus of Scholarpedia is toward sciences such as astrophysics, computational neuroscience, computational intelligence, dynamical systems, and physics. Scholarpedia has the same feel and look at Wikipedia and the main page states that it is powered by the same program, MediaWiki. Like Wikipedia, Scholarpedia allows visitors to edit articles. But Scholarpedia makes is clear that the editing process is stricter and has a scholarly measure in place to ensure edits are accurate and current. On the main page Scholarpedia differentiates itself from Wikipedia in various ways. These include that each article is written by an experts, the articles are peer reviewed, each article has a curator, and any editing of articles has to be approved by the curator of the article before it appears as a revision online. The main page is updated weekly to include a biography of a featured author. Scholarpedia has an editor in chief, Dr Eugene M. Izhikevich, who is a Senior Fellow in...