Contribution score
A weighted sum of your accepted contributions. Not every contribution carries the same signal, so each type is weighted: authoring and editing the most, reviewing and fact-checking next, then corrections, sources and citations.
Trust score
Your acceptance rate, tempered by how much work has actually been decided. A perfect record over a handful of contributions is treated more cautiously than a strong record over a long history — trust is earned by both quality and consistency.
Topic authority
Reputation is not one number. CitePep keeps a separate score per topic, so a profile shows precisely where someone's expertise is concentrated — technology, language, a specific science, and so on.
The contributor ladder
Higher levels bring greater visibility and, over time, publishing opportunities. Reputation is portable: it belongs to the contributor, not to any one publisher.