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ReviewBioscience2024

Citizen silence: Missed opportunities in citizen science.

Damon M Hall, Pedro M Avellaneda-Lopez, Darren L Ficklin, Jason H Knouft, Christopher Lowry

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Review in Bioscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Damon M HallMarine and Environmental Sciences and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, at the Coastal Sustainability Institute of Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1232-119X
Pedro M Avellaneda-LopezSan Francisco Estuary Institute, San Francisco, California, United States.
Darren L FicklinDepartment of Geography at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3736-7407
Jason H KnouftDepartment of Biology at Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3737-5696
Christopher LowryDepartment of Geology, University at Buffalo  United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0512-964X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Citizen science is personal. Participation is contingent on the citizens' connection to a topic or to interpersonal relationships meaningful to them. But from the peer-reviewed literature, scientists appear to have an acquisitive data-centered relationship with citizens. This has spurred ethical and pragmatic criticisms of extractive relationships with citizen scientists. We suggest five practical steps to shift citizen-science research from extractive to relational, reorienting the research process and providing reciprocal benefits to researchers and citizen scientists. By virtue of their interests and experience within their local environments, citizen scientists have expertise that, if engaged, can improve research methods and product design decisions. To boost the value of scientific outputs to society and participants, citizen-science research teams should rethink how they engage and value volunteers.

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community sciencecrowdsourcinginclusivitypublic engagementsocietal benefits

Identifiers

PMID38854636
PMCPMC11153203

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