Reputation is a rough measurement of how much you get involved in our website. It helps decide the permissions you get and how much the community trusts you.

You gain reputation when:

• you claim the authorship of an article: +100
• you upload a document to share with others: +20
• you attach a supplementary resource for an article: +5
• you edit the extended metadata of an article: +2
• you finish reading an article: +1
• you publish a new review: +5
• your review is voted up by a user: +5
• your review is bookmarked by a user: +2
• you make a comment on a review: +2
• bounty awarded by moderators: +full bounty amount

You lose reputation when:

• you rate an article: -1
• you vote a review: -1
• your review is voted down by a user: -5
• penalty decided by moderators: -full penalty amount

Privileges are determinted by your reputation:

• you need at least 100 reputation to edit the metadata of an article
• you need at least 10 reputation to publish a new review