Citizen science (CS) projects encompass a variety of different disciplines (e.g. health, biology, education). However, it is not clear whether volunteers’ working i.e. professional discipline is related to the discipline of their selected project. 

Continue reading Sticking in your professional domain or trying something new? at Citizen Science | CS Track Project.

Since November 2019 the international research project CS Track has been combining traditional social-science methods with web-based and computational analytics in order to systematically survey the field of Citizen Science.

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Since November 2019 the international research project CS Track has been combining traditional social-science methods with web-based and computational analytics in order to systematically survey the field of Citizen Science.

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Since November 2019 the international research project CS Track has been combining traditional social-science methods with web-based and computational analytics in order to systematically survey the field of Citizen Science. Based on our findings, we have now developed a set of 10 policy recommendations which identify key issues to be addressed if we want to further support and promote participatory research in Europe. The goal of these recommendations is to suggest ways in which CS stakeholders (such as project initiators, platform managers or funding agencies) can help maximise the benefit of Citizen Science activities for individual citizens, the scientific community, and society at large.

Continue reading CS Track publishes policy recommendations based on project results at Citizen Science | CS Track Project.

We are delighted to announce that the article entitled “An analytics approach to health and healthcare in citizen science communications on Twitter” written by Fernando Martínez-Martínez, David Roldán-Álvarez, Estefanía Martín, and H Ulrich Hoppe has been published in the Digital Health journal. Their findings suggest that the most addressed topics by Twitter users are sustainable development goals, technologies and health, and COVID-19. Other topics represented in the data are cancer, public health, mental health, and health and well-being of sea and earth-living creatures related to sustainable development goals.

Continue reading CS Track paper published in Digital Health at Citizen Science | CS Track Project.

We are delighted to announce that the article entitled “Inclusion and exclusion in citizen science: A matter of context” written by Michael Strähle and Christine Urban has been published in the conference proceedings of the STS Conference Graz 2022 that took place from 2-4 May 2022.

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We are happy to announce that the paper entitled “Identifying learning dimensions in citizen science projects” written by Marius Oesterheld, Vincent Schmid-Loertzer, Miriam Calvera-Isabal, Ishari Amarasinghe, Patricia Santos and Yaela N Golumbic, and the paper entitled “The Activities & Dimensions Grid of Citizen Science” written by Michael Strähle and Christine Urban have been both published in the Conference Proceedings from the Engaging Citizen Science Conference 2022 that took place from 25-26 April 2022 in Aarhus, Denmark!

Continue reading CS Track papers published in Conference Proceedings of the Citizen Science Conference 2022 at Citizen Science | CS Track Project.

Main aim of the study

This work presents opportunities, achievements, and future challenges in using computational analytics to better understand the connection between CS and the SDGs. The work in its status does not fully cover SDGs in CS, but it evaluates and shows the potential of the text-classification techniques for identifying SDGs in CS project descriptions and for assessing trends in connection of CS and SDGs based on available data.  

This study analyses different automatic classifiers by comparing the results obtained from their application in a sample of 208 CS project descriptions.

Continue reading <strong>Mapping Sustainable Development Goals to Citizen Science projects</strong> at Citizen Science | CS Track Project.

We are delighted to announce that the article entitled “Does Volunteer Engagement Pay Off? An Analysis of User Participation in Online Citizen Science Projects” written by our colleagues Simon Krukowski, Ishari Amarasinghe, Nicolás Felipe Gutiérrez-Páez & H. Ulrich Hoppe has been published in CollabTech 2022: Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing. The article is available in English and can be accessed here.

Continue reading CS Track paper on volunteer engagement published in CollabTech 2022 at Citizen Science | CS Track Project.

TIME4CS will run an online interactive workshop on 6 December from 10:00 – 12:00 CET about how to contribute to fostering the adoption of citizen science as research methodology within your organization through the use of institutional roadmaps.  

Participants have the chance to: 

• Discuss challenges and opportunities for citizen science in their institution 
• Learn about using institutional roadmaps as a tool for change 
• Co-create their own Grounding Action with the TIME4CS Reflection Tool!

Continue reading TIME4CS’ online event on embedding citizen science in your institution, 6 December at Citizen Science | CS Track Project.