ArticleBioscience2025
iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research.
Article in Bioscience, 2025. 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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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Extensive climate-induced range shifts in butterflies across the globe.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Toward an Ecology of Household Biomes.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- AI-driven technological breakthroughs and practical pathways for biodiversity conservation and ecological management.iScience · 2026Review
- Evaluating species identification apps as a tool for small plot-based surveys of vascular plants in Alberta, Canada.AoB PLANTS · 2026Article
- Community Science: Big Insights From Small Mammal Data.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- RUM/FILH: a standardized operational capability model for biodiversity databases.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026Article
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- iNaturalist mammal observations classified by evidence type.PloS one · 2026Article
- Citizen science powers wetland restoration.Environmental science and ecotechnology · 2026Review
- Integrating images, sounds, citizen science and AI to assess the biodiversity of the Atlantic Forest of Brazil.PloS one · 2026Article
- Sampling bias and uneven data coverage shape observed biodiversity patterns in a megadiverse island archipelago hotspot.PloS one · 2026Article
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Abstract
Participatory citizen science is expanding, with iNaturalist emerging as one of the most widely used platforms globally. However, its application in research is often anecdotal. To evaluate the impact of how iNaturalist is contributing to biodiversity and conservation research, we conducted a systematic review of iNaturalist data use and compared our findings with Global Biodiversity Information Facility literature citing iNaturalist. We found that the use of iNaturalist data in peer-reviewed research has grown tenfold in the last 5 years, matching the growing increase in iNaturalist observations. Geographic and taxonomic representation in the literature generally aligns with data availability, with iNaturalist data derived from 128 countries and 638 taxonomic families being used in peer-reviewed literature. Currently, data from iNaturalist are primarily used for species distribution models and range dynamics. We highlight emerging trends in the use of iNaturalist data in the literature lending to its future potential across biodiversity sciences.
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