Ten reasons to participate

[Leo Trottier]

Academics currently write tens of thousands of literature reviews yearly, nearly all of which become locked behind internet paywalls: difficult or costly to access, usually hidden from search engines, and impossible to update. By contrast, reviews published via Scholarpedia are freely available to all, forever, and can be quickly and gradually revised. We believe this is a much faster, more efficient, and more satisfying way to disseminate and keep current the world's knowledge.

In addition, now that the contest deadline has been extended, here are ten more reasons to participate:

1. Help discover what works in scholarly collaboration — participate in a global experiment on the future of scholarly research.
2. Add a peer-reviewed article to your C.V.
3. Support open-access publishing.
4. Help the public — provide to the world an accurate article on a topic of importance to you.
5. For posterity — be the author of a review that will be useful for decades to come.
6. To support interdisciplinary research — encourage others to participate in compiling a free, current, and scholarly online resource.
7. To see your work appear in a normal Google search — your article will likely appear within the top five search results when its topic is queried.
8. For Curatorship — become a topic Curator, and help ensure that the world has trustworthy information available to them on a topic of your expertise.
9. To accelerate research — help science and scholarship advance more quickly by providing an easily accessible and updatable review.
10. To promote scholarly information online — help resist the glut of redundant and generic online “content” with a substantive, thoughtful, and enduring contribution.

[Jonathan Williford]

Scholarpedia articles also get cited frequently. You can see Scholarpedia articles sorted by citation by the following Google Scholar search:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&hl=en&as_publication=scholarpedia&as_sdt=0,21

Top cited Scholarpedia articles:

1. NEST (neural simulation tool) with 186 citations
2. Hypothalamus with 113 citations
3. Ant colony optimization with 79 citations

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