The Analytics page of your profile shows information to help you measure how much your contribution to Scipedia is esteemed among the community and the attention your work is getting. This page also includes the evaluation of the percentiles of the different user scores compared to the community.
Reputation is a rough measurement of how much your contribution to Scipedia is esteemed among the community (how the community thanks you). Reputation is earned by demonstrating your expertise to your peers. Basic use of the site, including reading publishing documents, posting comments or asking questions, does not require any reputation at all. But the more reputation you earn, the more privileges you gain.
The primary way to gain reputation is by publishing papers. Votes of your peers on the interest of your papers cause you to gain (or sometimes lose) reputation. Posting good questions and useful answers also allows you to gain reputation among your peers.
All users start with one reputation point, and reputation can never drop below 1. Accepting your own answer does not gain you any reputation. If a user reverses a vote, the corresponding reputation loss or gain will be reversed as well. Vote reversal as a result of voting fraud will also return lost or gained reputation.
You can earn a maximum of 100 reputation points per day from any combination of the activities listed below:
You can earn a maximum of 500 reputation points per day from any combination of the activities listed below.
You lose reputation when:
You are immediately informed of the reputation points earned by your direct actions. You are also informed of other changes in your reputation score by email or through your profile's analytics page.
If you have made public a new paper and are not receiving feedback from reviewers, you can draw attention to your article by placing a bounty on it. A bounty is a special reputation award given to paper reviews. It is funded by the personal reputation of the user who offers it, and is non-refundable. Bounties can also be placed on questions and awarded to answers. You do not need to be the asker of the question to offer a bounty on it.
The following rules are applied to bounties:
Bounty for a paper review is automatically distributed among the reviewers once the paper is accepted.
The bounty for a question is awarded by the user who offers it. If a bounty for a question is not awarded within 15 days, the highest voted answer (with a positive score) created after the bounty started will be awarded the bounty amount. If two or more eligible answers have the same score, the oldest answer is chosen. If there's no answer meeting those criteria, no bounty is awarded to anyone.
Editors are granted a pool of 200 reputation points per month to award bounties to authors and reviewers.
The basic list of privileges acquired with reputation points is:
Impact is a metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of a scientist's publications. It is based on the well known h-10 index and calculated based on data provided by Google Scholar.
Scipedia's impact score may differ from the h-10 value calculated by Google Scholar, since some processing is performed on the data provided by Google Scholar by trying to remove 'phantom citations'.
Prestige is a combined index calculated based on reputation and impact scores, using the following formula:
: is the percentile of the reputation score among the Scipedia community.
: is the percentile of the impact score among your peers.
Paper impact is calculated for every published document in Scipedia. Paper impact is a rough measurement of the paper's impact among the Scipedia community. Impact points are earned (or lost) by the visits and votes of the community to the article, as well as with the citations to it. Paper impact is shown as the total number of impact points and the percentile among the journal and the complete list of journals.
A paper can earn impact points without limitation from any combination of the actions listed below: