The Citizen Science Paradox
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Literature Review Based on CS Keywords
2.2. Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count Review
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
References
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Search Terms on 24 March 2022 (Period: 1900–2022) | Number of Publications (without/with the Condition: And “Ecology”) | Percentage of Publications Published after 2009 | Denomination Used in the Histogram Legend in Figure 1 |
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“public * engagement” OR “amateur * engagement” OR “citizen * engagement” OR “observer * engagement” OR “volunteer * engagement” OR “public* involve *” OR “amateur * involve *” OR “citizen* involve *” OR “observer * involve *” OR “volunteer * involve *” OR “public * participation” OR “amateur * participation” OR “citizen * participation” OR “observer* participation” OR “volunteer * participation” OR “public * monitoring” OR “amateur * monitoring” OR “citizen* monitoring” OR “observer * monitoring” OR “volunteer * monitoring” OR “volunteer * based monitoring” OR “participatory monitoring” OR “community monitoring” OR “monitoring scheme *” OR “monitoring program *” OR “participat * action research *” OR “participatory science*” OR “community science *” OR “citizen science *” | 65,428/4408 | 84.14% of 4408 publications | All (4408) |
“public * engagement” OR “amateur* engagement” OR “citizen * engagement” OR “observer * engagement” OR “volunteer * engagement” OR “public* involv*” OR “amateur* involv*” OR “citizen * involve *” OR “observer * involve *” OR “volunteer * involve *” OR “public * participation” OR “amateur* participation” OR “citizen * participation” OR “observer * participation” OR “volunteer * participation” OR “public * monitoring” OR “amateur * monitoring” OR “citizen * monitoring” OR “observer * monitoring” OR “volunteer * monitoring” OR “volunteer * based monitoring” OR “participatory monitoring” OR “community monitoring” OR “monitoring scheme *” OR “monitoring program *” OR “participat * action research *” OR “participatory science *” OR “community science *” | 60,030/3461 | 80.26% of 3461 publications | All without CS (3461) |
“citizen science *” | 6624/1161 | 98.45% of 1161 publications | CS only (1161) |
Keywords | T | A | Kw | I | M | R | D | Ak | Number of Publications |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Observer | 1 | 10 | 15 | 71 | 24 | 30 | 7 | 89 | |
Database/dataset/data set | 9 | 26 | 66 | 22 | 28 | 6 | 79 | ||
Volunteer | 1 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 35 | 5 | 10 | 48 | 74 |
Monitoring/monitor | 4 | 9 | 5 | 22 | 22 | 7 | 22 | 2 | 49 |
Participant | 4 | 8 | 27 | 9 | 14 | 13 | 48 | ||
Citizen | 7 | 16 | 15 | 19 | 16 | 6 | 14 | 10 | 36 |
People | 1 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 14 | 4 | 36 | ||
Program | 1 | 8 | 16 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 30 | |
Participation/participate/participatory | 1 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 27 | ||
Involvement/involve/involving | 1 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 19 | |||
Public | 3 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 15 | ||
Engagement/engage | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | |||
Amateur | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | |||
Tool | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | ||||
Scheme | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||
Community science | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
Action research | 0 | ||||||||
Number of publications | 11 | 41 | 17 | 64 | 116 | 59 | 81 | 72 |
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