Help - Reputation & Analytics

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 add your current position (research experience) to your profile: +15
  • you add any additional 'research experience' item to your profile: +10
  • you add an item to your profile regarding your 'teaching experience': +10
  • you add an education item to your profile: +10
  • you add an item regarding 'skills & experience' to your profile: +10
  • you add a photo to your profile: +15
  • you add any contribution (publication or communication) to your profile: +5
  • you have more than 50 reputation points and you have added your current position and teaching or education experience to your profile: +50
  • your article is made public for review: +25 (shared among authors)
  • your article is published in a peer-reviewed publication: +100 (shared among authors)
  • your article is published in a collection publication: +25 (shared among authors)
  • you add your comments as reviewer of a paper: +10
  • you recommend a paper as accepted for publication: +5
  • you add a question or comment on a published article: +5
  • you answer a review comment of your article: +5
  • your paper is voted up (after publishing): +5
  • your paper is cited: +10
  • you answer a question: +1
  • your question or comment on a published paper is voted up: +5
  • your answer is voted up: +10
  • your answer is marked "accepted": +15 (+2 to acceptor)
  • you have a new follower: +2
  • you start to follow a peer: +1
  • you invite a colleague to join Scipedia: +1
  • your invitation to join Scipedia is accepted: +5
  • you endorse expertise field to a peer: +1

You can earn a maximum of 500 reputation points per day from any combination of the activities listed below.

  • your paper is published in a journal or archive: +300 (shared among authors) +40 (shared among editors of the journal)
  • your document is published in a collection or your communication is published in the proceedings of a congress: +100 (shared among authors) +40 (shared among editors of the journal)
  • bounty awarded to a paper review: + full bounty amount (shared among all the reviewers)
  • bounty awarded to your answer: + full bounty amount
  • creation of a new journal: +500 reputation points (shared among editors)
  • you have been appointed to the Scipedia's Advisory Committee: +500

You lose reputation when:

  • your paper is voted down (after publishing): -2 (shared among authors)
  • your question is voted down: -2
  • your answer is voted down: -2
  • you vote down an answer: -1
  • you recommend a paper as rejected for publication: -2
  • you place a bounty on a paper review: - full bounty amount
  • you place a bounty on a question: -full bounty amount

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:

  • All bounties are paid up front and are non-refundable under any circumstances.
  • You cannot cancel a bounty once it has been started.
  • Minimum bounty amount is 20 reputation points and the maximum is 100.
  • If your new reputation brings you below the requirement for any privileges, you will lose access to those privileges.
  • Users may only have three active bounties at any given time.
  • Papers and questions may only have one active bounty at any given time.
  • If you want to offer a bounty on a question that you have already posted an answer to, your minimum spend is 50 reputation points.

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:

  • 100 reputation points: the user can publish papers (author)
  • 1000 reputation points: the user can create new journals (editor)
  • 5000 reputation points or percentile above 98: the user is qualified to be a member of the Scipedia Advisory Board (advisor)

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:

  • paper is voted up (after publishing): +5
  • paper is cited: +10
  • paper is voted down: -2
  • paper is visited: +1