Is ecology different when studied with citizen scientists? A bibliometric analysis.

ABSTRACT: Ecology is broad and relies on several complementary approaches to study the mechanisms driving the distribution and abundance of organisms and their interactions. One of them is citizen science (CitSci), the co-production of scientific data and knowledge by nonprofessional scientists, in collaboration with, or under the direction of, professional scientists. CitSci has bloomed in the scientific literature over the last decade and its popularity continues to increase, but its qualitative contribution to the development of academic knowledge remains understudied. We used a bibliometric analysis to study whether the epistemic content of CitSci-based articles is different from traditional, non-CitSci ones within the field of ecology. We analyzed keywords and abstracts of articles published in

SUBMITTER: Castagneyrol B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10509151 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature