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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

The problem with delineating narrow criteria for citizen science.

Jeremy Auerbach, Erika L Barthelmess, Darlene Cavalier, Caren B Cooper, Heather Fenyk, Mordechai Haklay, Joseph M Hulbert, Christopher C M Kyba, Lincoln R Larson, Eva Lewandowski and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Fostering citizen-engaged HIV implementation science.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2024
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  5. Dark citizen science.Public understanding of science (Bristol, England) · 2024
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  6. Standardised data on initiatives-STARDIT: Beta version.Research involvement and engagement · 2022
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  8. Contours of citizen science: a vignette study.Royal Society open science · 2021
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  10. Reply to Auerbach et al.: How our Opinion piece invites collaboration.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Jeremy AuerbachDepartment of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523; jeremy.auerbach@colostate.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0061-7943
Erika L BarthelmessBiology Department, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY 13617.
Darlene CavalierSchool for the Future of Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287.
Caren B CooperDepartment of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.
Heather FenykLower Raritan Watershed Partnership, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
Mordechai HaklayDepartment of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
Joseph M HulbertForestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa.
Christopher C M KybaRemote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, 14473 Potsdam, Germany.
Lincoln R LarsonDepartment of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.
Eva LewandowskiWisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Madison, WI 53707.
Lea ShanleyNelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Citizen ScienceScienceCommunity ParticipationHumans

Identifiers

PMID31363074
PMCPMC6681715

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