Number of papers

Publish or perish is the name of the game. We look to encourage the number of papers published by adding achievements to our troops.

# Design Image
1 Paper w/ #1
2 Paper w/ #2
5 Paper w/ #3
10 Paper w/ #10
20 Paper w/ #20
50 Paper w/ #50

Number of citations

What good is a publication if no-one talks about it? Here are the awards for citations.

# Design Image
1 Bubble w/ #1
5 Bubble w/ #5
10 Bubble w/ #10
25 Bubble w/ #25
50 Bubble w/ #50
100 Bubble w/ #100
500 Bubble w/ #500
1000 Bubble w/ #1000

Physical Review Publications

Physical Review, known for reviewing physical things is a time honored journal of which many physicists publish. One goal however is not so easy, that is the coveted alphabet where a physicist has publications in every single journal, we wish to acknowledge said physicist’s path to greatness.

Journal Design Image
Physical Review PR-Hourglass
Physical Review A PRA
Physical Review B PRB
Physical Review C PRC
Physical Review D PRD
Physical Review E PRE
Physical Review X PRX
Physical Review Letters PRL
Reviews of Modern Physics RMP
All of them PR-alpha-beta

Other APS journals exist but I’m not sure if I should include them.

Programming Language

This is where we celebrate a person’s proficiency in the glorious language of computers.

Language Design Image
MATLAB MATLAB symbol
MATHEMATICA MATHEMATICA symbol
JAVA JAVA symbol
PYTHON PYTHON symbol
HASKELL HASKELL symbol

Other languages to be added.

Other Achievements

Achievement Design Image
Create your own graph type ?
Get published without question A question mark with a no symbol.
Innovator; create a new achievement ?

Rank

This is also a work in progress. Rank is designated by degree level. Whether someone achieves a rank by beginning a degree or completing it is yet to be decided. Ranks are also a work in progress.

Uni Rank Military Equivalent
Undergrad Private
Honours Private first class
Masters ?
Ph. D. ?
Fellow ?
A. Prof. ?
Prof. ?

A note from the author

Discussion is acknowledged and encouraged (there is an achievement for inventing a new badge/achievement after all) and so all opinions are welcome. If you think something needs tweaking just give us a buzz.