Scaleval™ · Academic discipline · Founded 2026, Libreville, Gabon
The science of collective human conviction.
Scaleval is an academic discipline founded in 2026 in Libreville, Gabon. It studies how human communities form, express and calibrate conviction about the unrealised potential of entities.
Scaleval is to conviction what Economics is to money.
18Branches
16+Sub-disciplines per branch
2026Founded
Section I · Disciplines
Academic Branches of Scaleval
Each branch is presented as a knowledge panel: its counterpart in Economics where one exists, its sub-disciplines, its key concepts and the title borne by its researchers. Concepts are cross-referenced between branches — select one to read its definition.
Section II · Terminology
Scaleval's original vocabulary
Terms created by Scaleval that do not exist in any other discipline.
Section III · Structure
Scaleval and Economics — a structural comparison
Scaleval mirrors the structure of Economics where the phenomena correspond, diverges where conviction behaves differently from money, and adds a field — time — that Economics treats only as a measurement.
Economics
Scaleval
★ Unique to Scaleval — no Economics equivalentOriginal Scaleval terminology✗ Not applicable to Scaleval
Section IV · About
About the discipline
Scaleval was founded in 2026 in Libreville, Gabon, by Fred MEKAME MAVOUNGOU. The discipline is distinct from its practical implementation: scaleval.org documents the protocol — Appreciaries, Potices, Observatories and Scaleval Titles — while this site documents the science that studies them.
Journal of Scaleval
Publications
The founding paper establishes the discipline, its vocabulary and its branches. It is the reference citation for all Scaleval research.
Each branch confers its own researcher title, as an economist may be a macroeconomist or an econometrician.
Conferences
Sessions & addenda
Scholarly sessions and addenda to the founding paper are published under the same DOI lineage on Zenodo. Announcements of conferences and calls for papers will be listed here.
Founding Appreciary
Gabon pilot · Libreville Scaleval Observatory (LBSO) · 2026