Quantifying online citizen science: Dynamics and demographics of public participation in science.

ABSTRACT: Citizen scientists around the world are collecting data with their smartphones, performing scientific calculations on their home computers, and analyzing images on online platforms. These online citizen science projects are frequently lauded for their potential to revolutionize the scope and scale of data collection and analysis, improve scientific literacy, and democratize science. Yet, despite the attention online citizen science has attracted, it remains unclear how widespread public participation is, how it has changed over time, and how it is geographically distributed. Importantly, the demographic profile of citizen science participants remains uncertain, and thus to what extent their contributions are helping to democratize science. Here, we present the largest quantitative study of

SUBMITTER: Strasser BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10662724 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature