Over the past 16 years, the concept of crowdsourcing has rapidly gained traction across
many research fields. While related debates focused mainly on its importance for business …

Openness and collaboration in scientific research are attracting increasing attention from
scholars and practitioners alike. However, a common understanding of these phenomena is …

Citizen science has become more popular in recent years, quickly taking on a variety of
potentially conflicting characteristics: a way to collect massive data sets at relatively low cost …

Research projects that actively involve 'crowds' or non-professional 'citizen scientists' are
attracting growing attention. Such projects promise to increase scientific productivity while …

The term citizen science refers to a broad set of practices developed in a growing number of
areas of knowledge and characterized by the active citizen participation in some or several …

Over the past two decades, a number of digital platforms have been developed with the aim
of engaging citizens in scientific research projects. The success of these platforms depends …

Citizen science involves non-expert volunteers collaborating to investigate scientific
problems. Volunteers' knowledge contribution is a key premise to the success of citizen …

The improvement of volunteer performance is a continuing issue in citizen science projects.
From the perspective of motivational design, the provision of feedback is regarded as an …

Citizen science opens the scientific knowledge production process to societal actors. In this
novel collaboration process, scientists and citizens alike face the challenge of new tasks and …

This study examines the relative efficacy of citizen science recruitment messages appealing
to four motivations that were derived from previous research on motives for participation in …