An Analysis of Citizen Science Based Research: Usage and Publication Patterns

摘要: The use of citizen science for scientific discovery relies on the acceptance this method by community. Using Web Science and Scopus as source peer reviewed articles, an analysis all published articles “citizen science” confirmed its growth, found that significant research methodology validation techniques preceded rapid rise publications outcomes based methods. Of considerable interest is growing number studies relying re-use collected datasets from past projects, which used data either individual or multiple projects new discoveries, such climate change research. extent to has been in demonstrates importance a approach. This broad papers science, included not only but theory methods developed underpin research, highlights breadth depth approach encourages cross-fertilization between different disciplines.