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Goals and Tasks: Two Typologies of Citizen Science Projects
Abstract
Citizen science is a form of research collaboration involving members of the public in scientific research projects to address real-world problems. Often organized as a virtual collaboration, these projects are a type of open movement, with collective goals addressed through open participation in research tasks. We conducted a survey of citizen science projects to elicit multiple aspects of project design and operation. We then clustered projects based on the tasks performed by participants and on the project's stated goals. The clustering results group projects that show similarities along other dimensions, suggesting useful divisions of the projects.
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Citizen science has proven its contribution to the SDGs.
“Citizen science, as “a form of research collaboration involving members of the public in scientific research projects to address real-world problems” (Wiggins & Crowston, 2012) has proven its contribution to the SDGs.”
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- Authors
- Wiggins, A., & Crowston, K.
- Affiliations
- Syracuse University (US)
- ORCID
- Crowston, Kevin
- Venue
- 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2012-01
- Pages
- 3426-3435
- ISSN
- 1530-1605 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2114281773
- Cited by
- 93
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 4.85
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Open Source Software Innovations
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Keywords
- citizen science, project types, research collaboration, open participation, remote collaboration, project design, project objectives
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