Scientific publications (research articles, reviews, conference papers,…) on all citizen science aspects, specifically in the fields of biodiversity research and environmental sciences.
- Aceves-Bueno, E., Adeleye, A. S., Feraud, M., Huang, Y., Tao, M., Yang, Y., & Anderson, S. E. (2017). The Accuracy of Citizen Science Data: A Quantitative Review. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 98(4), 278–290. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1336
- Amano, T., Lamming, J. D. L., & Sutherland, W. J. (2016). Spatial Gaps in Global Biodiversity Information and the Role of Citizen Science. BioScience, 66(5), 393–400. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw022
- Boakes, E. H., Gliozzo, G., Seymour, V., Harvey, M., Smith, C., Roy, D. B., & Haklay, M. (2016). Patterns of contribution to citizen science biodiversity projects increase understanding of volunteers’ recording behaviour. Scientific Reports, 6(1), 33051. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33051
- Bonney, R., Ballard, H., Jordan, R., McCallie, E., Phillips, T., Shirk, J., & Wilderman, C. C. (2009). Public Participation in Scientific Research: Defining the Field and Assessing Its Potential for Informal Science Education. Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE).
- Bonney, R., Shirk, J. L., Phillips, T. B., Wiggins, A., Ballard, H. L., Miller-Rushing, A. J., & Parrish, J. K. (2014). Next Steps for Citizen Science. Science, 343(6178), 1436–1437. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1251554
- Bowser, A., Wiggins, A., Shanley, L., Preece, J., & Henderson, S. (2014). Sharing data while protecting privacy in citizen science. Interactions, 21(1), 70–73. https://doi.org/10.1145/2540032
- Ceccaroni, L., Bowser, A., & Brenton, P. (2017). Civic Education and Citizen Science: Definitions, Categories, Knowledge Representation. In L. Ceccaroni & J. Piera (Eds.), Analyzing the Role of Citizen Science in Modern Research (pp. 1–23). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0962-2.ch001
- Chandler, M., See, L., Buesching, C. D., Cousins, J. A., Gillies, C., Kays, R. W., Newman, C., Pereira, H. M., & Tiago, P. (2016). Involving Citizen Scientists in Biodiversity Observation. In R. J. Scholes & M. Walters (Eds.), The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks (pp. 211–237). Springer Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27288-7
- Chandler, M., See, L., Copas, K., Bonde, A. M. Z., López, B. C., Danielsen, F., Legind, J. K., Masinde, S., Miller-Rushing, A. J., Newman, G., Rosemartin, A., & Turak, E. (2017). Contribution of citizen science towards international biodiversity monitoring. Biological Conservation, 213, 280–294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.09.004
- Cigliano, J. A., Meyer, R., Ballard, H. L., Freitag, A., Phillips, T. B., & Wasser, A. (2015). Making marine and coastal citizen science matter. Ocean & Coastal Management, 115, 77–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2015.06.012
- Cigliano, J. A., & Ballard, H. L. (Eds.). (2017). Citizen Science for Coastal and Marine Conservation (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315638966
- Conrad, C. C., & Hilchey, K. G. (2010). A review of citizen science and community-based environmental monitoring: issues and opportunities. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 176(1–4), 273–291. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-010-1582-5
- Cox, J., Oh, E. Y., Simmons, B., Lintott, C., Masters, K., Greenhill, A., Graham, G., & Holmes, K. (2015). Defining and Measuring Success in Online Citizen Science: A Case Study of Zooniverse Projects. Computing in Science & Engineering, 17(4), 28–41. https://doi.org/10.1109/mcse.2015.65
- Cunha, D. G. F., Marques, J. F., De Resende, J. C., De Falco, P. B., De Souza, C. M., & Loiselle, S. A. (2017). Citizen science participation in research in the environmental sciences: key factors related to projects’ success and longevity. Anais Da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 89(3 suppl), 2229–2245. https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765201720160548
- Dickinson, J. L., Zuckerberg, B., & Bonter, D. N. (2010). Citizen Science as an Ecological Research Tool: Challenges and Benefits. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 41(1), 149–172. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102209-144636
- Dickinson, J. L., Shirk, J., Bonter, D., Bonney, R., Crain, R. L., Martin, J., Phillips, T., & Purcell, K. (2012). The current state of citizen science as a tool for ecological research and public engagement. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 10(6), 291–297. https://doi.org/10.1890/110236
- Dillon, J., Stevenson, R. B., & Wals, A. E. J. (2016). Introduction to the special section Moving from Citizen to Civic Science to Address Wicked Conservation Problems. Corrected by erratum 2844. Conservation Biology, 30(3), 450–455. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12689
- Dowthwaite, L., & Sprinks, J. (2019). Citizen science and the professional-amateur divide: lessons from differing online practices. Journal of Science Communication, 18(01), A06. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18010206
- Eitzel, M. V., Cappadonna, J. L., Santos-Lang, C., Duerr, R. E., Virapongse, A., West, S. E., Kyba, C. C. M., Bowser, A., Cooper, C. B., Sforzi, A., Metcalfe, A. N., Harris, E. S., Thiel, M., Haklay, M., Ponciano, L., Roche, J., Ceccaroni, L., Shilling, F. M., Dörler, D., … Jiang, Q. (2017). Citizen Science Terminology Matters: Exploring Key Terms. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.96
- Eleta, I., Galdon Clavell, G., Righi, V., & Balestrini, M. (2018). The Promise of Participation and Decision-Making Power in Citizen Science. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 4(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.171
- Follett, R., & Strezov, V. (2015). An Analysis of Citizen Science Based Research: Usage and Publication Patterns. PLOS ONE, 10(11), e0143687. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143687
- Gadermaier, G., Dörler, D., Heigl, F., Mayr, S., Rüdisser, J., Brodschneider, R., & Marizzi, C. (2018). Peer-reviewed publishing of results from Citizen Science projects. Journal of Science Communication, 17(03). https://doi.org/10.22323/2.17030101
- Gallo, T., & Waitt, D. (2011). Creating a Successful Citizen Science Model to Detect and Report Invasive Species. BioScience, 61(6), 459–465. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2011.61.6.8
- Ganzevoort, W., van den Born, R. J. G., Halffman, W., & Turnhout, S. (2017). Sharing biodiversity data: citizen scientists’ concerns and motivations. Biodiversity and Conservation, 26(12), 2821–2837. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-017-1391-z
- Geijzendorffer, I. R., Regan, E. C., Pereira, H. M., Brotons, L., Brummitt, N., Gavish, Y., Haase, P., Martin, C. S., Mihoub, J.-B., Secades, C., Schmeller, D. S., Stoll, S., Wetzel, F. T., & Walters, M. (2015). Bridging the gap between biodiversity data and policy reporting needs: An Essential Biodiversity Variables perspective. Journal of Applied Ecology, 53(5), 1341–1350. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12417
- Geoghegan , H., Dyke, A., Pateman, R., West, S., & Everett, G. (2016). Understanding motivations for citizen science. UK Environmental Observation Framework (UKEOF).
- Groom, Q., Weatherdon, L., & Geijzendorffer, I. R. (2016). Is citizen science an open science in the case of biodiversity observations? Journal of Applied Ecology, 54(2), 612–617. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12767
- Groom, Q., Strubbe, D., Adriaens, T., Davis, A. J. S., Desmet, P., Oldoni, D., Reyserhove, L., Roy, H. E., & Vanderhoeven, S. (2019). Empowering Citizens to Inform Decision-Making as a Way Forward to Support Invasive Alien Species Policy. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 4(1), 33. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.238
- Haklay M., Dörler D., Heigl F., Manzoni M., Hecker S., Vohland K. (2020) What Is Citizen Science? The challenges of defining the field. in: Science of Citizen Science. Springer. Haklay, M. (2013). Citizen Science and Volunteered Geographic Information: Overview and Typology of Participation. In D. Z. Sui, S. Elwood, & M. F. Goodchild (Eds.), Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge (pp. 105–122). Springer, Dordrecht. 10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4.
- Hecker, S., Wicke, N., Haklay, M., & Bonn, A. (2019). How Does Policy Conceptualise Citizen Science? A Qualitative Content Analysis of International Policy Documents. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 4(1), 32. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.230
- Hill, M. O. (2011). Local frequency as a key to interpreting species occurrence data when recording effort is not known. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3(1), 195–205. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210x.2011.00146.x
- Hochachka, W. M., Fink, D., Hutchinson, R. A., Sheldon, D., Wong, W.-K., & Kelling, S. (2012). Data-intensive science applied to broad-scale citizen science. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 27(2), 130–137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2011.11.006
- Jacobs, C. (2016). Data quality in crowdsourcing for biodiversity research: issues and examples. In M. Haklay, V. Antoniou, H. Huang, C. Capineri, J. Kettunen, F. Ostermann, & R. Purves (Eds.), European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information (pp. 75–86). Ubiquity Press Ltd., London. https://doi.org/10.5334/bax
- Kelemen-Finan, J., Scheuch, M., & Winter, S. (2018). Contributions from citizen science to science education: an examination of a biodiversity citizen science project with schools in Central Europe. International Journal of Science Education, 40(17), 2078–2098. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2018.1520405
- Kelling, S., Johnston, A., Bonn, A., Fink, D., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Bonney, R., Fernandez, M., Hochachka, W. M., Julliard, R., Kraemer, R., & Guralnick, R. (2019). Using Semistructured Surveys to Improve Citizen Science Data for Monitoring Biodiversity. BioScience, 69(3), 170–179. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz010
- Kosmala, M., Wiggins, A., Swanson, A., & Simmons, B. (2016). Assessing data quality in citizen science. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 14(10), 551–560. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1436
- Lamoureux, Z., & Fast, V. (2019). The tools of citizen science: An evaluation of map-based crowdsourcing platforms. Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada, 7(4), 1.
- Landrain, T., Meyer, M., Perez, A. M., & Sussan, R. (2013). Do-it-yourself biology: challenges and promises for an open science and technology movement. Systems and Synthetic Biology, 7(3), 115–126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11693-013-9116-4
- Latombe, G., Pyšek, P., Jeschke, J. M., Blackburn, T. M., Bacher, S., Capinha, C., Costello, M. J., Fernández, M., Gregory, R. D., Hobern, D., Hui, C., Jetz, W., Kumschick, S., McGrannachan, C., Pergl, J., Roy, H. E., Scalera, R., Squires, Z. E., Wilson, J. R. U., … McGeoch, M. A. (2017). A vision for global monitoring of biological invasions. Biological Conservation, 213, 295–308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.06.013
- McGeoch, M. A., & Squires, Z. (2015). An Essential Biodiversity Variable Approach to Monitoring Biological Invasions: Guide for Countries. GEO BON Technical Series 2.
- McKinley, D. C., Miller-Rushing, A. J., Ballard, H. L., Bonney, R., Brown, H., Cook-Patton, S. C., Evans, D. M., French, R. A., Parrish, J. K., Phillips, T. B., Ryan, S. F., Shanley, L. A., Shirk, J. L., Stepenuck, K. F., Weltzin, J. F., Wiggins, A., Boyle, O. D., Briggs, R. D., Chapin, S. F., … Soukup, M. A. (2017). Citizen science can improve conservation science, natural resource management, and environmental protection. Biological Conservation, 208, 15–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.05.015
- Miller-Rushing, A., Primack, R., & Bonney, R. (2012). The history of public participation in ecological research. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 10(6), 285–290. https://doi.org/10.1890/110278
- Newman, G., Wiggins, A., Crall, A., Graham, E., Newman, S., & Crowston, K. (2012). The future of citizen science: emerging technologies and shifting paradigms. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 10(6), 298–304. https://doi.org/10.1890/110294
- Peter, M., Diekötter, T., & Kremer, K. (2019). Participant Outcomes of Biodiversity Citizen Science Projects: A Systematic Literature Review. Sustainability, 11(10), 2780. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11102780
- Pimm, S. L., Alibhai, S., Bergl, R., Dehgan, A., Giri, C., Jewell, Z., Joppa, L., Kays, R., & Loarie, S. (2015). Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 30(11), 685–696. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.08.008
- Pocock, M. J. O., Roy, H. E., Preston, C. D., & Roy, D. B. (2015a). The Biological Records Centre: a pioneer of citizen science. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 115(3), 475–493. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12548
- Pocock, M. J. O., Newson, S. E., Henderson, I. G., Peyton, J., Sutherland, W. J., Noble, D. G., Ball, S. G., Beckmann, B. C., Biggs, J., Brereton, T., Bullock, D. J., Buckland, S. T., Edwards, M., Eaton, M. A., Harvey, M. C., Hill, M. O., Horlock, M., Hubble, D. S., Julian, A. M., … Roy, D. B. (2015b). Developing and enhancing biodiversity monitoring programmes: a collaborative assessment of priorities. Journal of Applied Ecology, 52(3), 686–695. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12423
- Pocock, M. J. O., Tweddle, J. C., Savage, J., Robinson, L. D., & Roy, H. E. (2017). The diversity and evolution of ecological and environmental citizen science. PLOS ONE, 12(4), e0172579. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172579.
- Pocock, M. J. O., Chandler, M., Bonney, R., Thornhill, I., Albin, A., August, T., Bachman, S., Brown, P. M. J., Cunha, D. G. F., Grez, A., Jackson, C., Peters, M., Rabarijaon, N. R., Roy, H. E., Zaviezo, T., & Danielsen, F. (2018). A Vision for Global Biodiversity Monitoring With Citizen Science. Advances in Ecological Research, 59, 169–223. doi: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2018.06.003.
- Pocock, M. J. O., Roy, H. E., August, T., Kuria, A., Barasa, F., Bett, J., Githiru, M., Kairo, J., Kimani, J., Kinuthia, W., Kissui, B., Madindou, I., Mbogo, K., Mirembe, J., Mugo, P., Muniale, F. M., Njoroge, P., Njuguna, E. G., Olendo, M. I., … Trevelyan, R. (2018). Developing the global potential of citizen science: Assessing opportunities that benefit people, society and the environment in East Africa. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(2), 274–281. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13279.
- Resnik, D. B. (2019). Citizen Scientists as Human Subjects: Ethical Issues. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 4(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.150
- Roy, H. E., Pocock, M. J. O., Preston, C. D., Roy, D. B., Savage, J., Tweddle, J. C., & Robinson, L. D. (2012). Understanding Citizen Science & Environmental Monitoring. NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology & Natural History Museum.
- Roy, H. E., Baxter, E., Saunders, A., & Pocock, M. J. O. (2016). Focal Plant Observations as a Standardised Method for Pollinator Monitoring: Opportunities and Limitations for Mass Participation Citizen Science. PLOS ONE, 11(3), e0150794. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150794
- Schade, S., & Tsinaraki, C. (2016). Survey report: data management in Citizen Science projects. Publications Office of the European Union. https://doi.org/10.2788/539115
- Schröter, M., Kraemer, R., Mantel, M., Kabisch, N., Hecker, S., Richter, A., Neumeier, V., & Bonn, A. (2017). Citizen science for assessing ecosystem services: Status, challenges and opportunities. Ecosystem Services, 28, 80–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.09.017
- Silvertown, J. (2009). A new dawn for citizen science. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 24(9), 467–471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.03.017
- Skarlatidou, A., Ponti, M., Sprinks, J., Nold, C., Haklay, M., & Kanjo, E. (2019). User experience of digital technologies in citizen science. Journal of Science Communication, 18(01), 1. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18010501
- Theobald, E. J., Ettinger, A. K., Burgess, H. K., DeBey, L. B., Schmidt, N., Froelich, H. E., Wagner, C., HilleRisLambers, J., Tewksbury, J., Harsch, M. A., & Parrish, J. K. (2014, December 15). Web-based Biodiversity Citizen Science Database (assembled 2012) [Dataset]. PANGAEA. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.840682
- Theobald, E. J., Ettinger, A. K., Burgess, H. K., DeBey, L. B., Schmidt, N. R., Froehlich, H. E., Wagner, C., HilleRisLambers, J., Tewksbury, J., Harsch, M. A., & Parrish, J. K. (2015). Global change and local solutions: Tapping the unrealized potential of citizen science for biodiversity research. Biological Conservation, 181, 236–244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2014.10.021
- Thornhill, I., Loiselle, S., Lind, K., & Ophof, D. (2016). The Citizen Science Opportunity for Researchers and Agencies. BioScience, 66(9), 720–721. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biw089.
- Toogood, M. (2013). Engaging Publics: Biodiversity Data Collection and the Geographies of Citizen Science. Geography Compass, 7(9), 611–621. doi: 10.1111/gec3.12067.
- Tulloch, A. I. T., Possingham, H. P., Joseph, L. N., Szabo, J., & Martin, T. G. (2013). Realising the full potential of citizen science monitoring programs. Biological Conservation, 165, 128–138. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.05.025.
- Van Noordwijk, C.G.E., Bischop, I., Staunton-Lamb, S., Oldfield, A., Loiselle, L., Geoghegan, H., & Ceccaroni, L. (2020). Creating positive environmental impact through citizen science. In K. Vohland, A. Land, L. Ceccaroni, J. Perello, M. Ponti, R. Samson, K. Wagenknecht, & R. Lemmers (Eds.), The Science of Citizen Science. Springer. 10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4.
- Van Noordwijk, C.G.E., Bischop, I., Staunton-Lamb, S., Oldfield, A., Loiselle, L., Geoghegan, H., & Ceccaroni, L. (2020). Creating positive environmental impact through citizen science. In: Vohland, K., Land, A., Ceccaroni, L., Lemmens, R., Perello, J., Ponti, M., Samson, R., & Wagenknecht, K. (Eds.). (2020). The Science of Citizen Science. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4. ISBN: 978-3-030-58278-4.
- Van Strien, A. J., van Swaay, C. A. M., & Termaat, T. (2013). Opportunistic citizen science data of animal species produce reliable estimates of distribution trends if analysed with occupancy models. Journal of Applied Ecology, 50(6), 1450–1458. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12158.
- Van Vliet, A. J. H., Bron, W. A., & Mulder, S. (2014). The how and why of societal publications for citizen science projects and scientists. International Journal of Biometeorology, 58(4), 565–577. doi: 10.1007/s00484-014-0821-9.
- Wiggins, A., & Crowston, K. (2011, January). From Conservation to Crowdsourcing: A Typology of Citizen Science. Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth Hawai’i International Conference on System Science (HICSS-44), 1–10. doi: 10.1109/hicss.2011.207.
- Ziegler D. & Mascarenhas A. (2017). Networks for Citizen Science in Europe and Germany. Future of Food: Journal on Food, Agriculture and Society 5(3): 68-71.