Abstract The Gravity Spy project aims to uncover the origins of glitches, transient bursts of
noise that hamper analysis of gravitational-wave data. By using both the work of citizen …

While much research has examined motivations for contributing to citizen science projects,
few studies have considered the role of personal values in directing citizen scientists' …

With the rise of COVID-19 cases globally, many countries released digital tools to mitigate
the effects of the pandemic. In Germany the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) published the …

Citizen Science is research undertaken by professional scientists and members of the public
collaboratively. Despite numerous benefits of citizen science for both the advancement of …

To achieve sustained participation, community science projects aim to satisfy the motivations
and desired personal outcomes of their volunteers. Evaluating participation is, therefore …

Purpose Information practices become highly complex in biodiversity citizen science
projects due to the projects' large scale, distributed setting and vast inclusion of participants …

The theoretical framework of communities of practice (CoP) is often used for framing
research into online communities. However, there is an absence of measures and empirical …

Summary This Cambridge Element aims to advance theory by investigating the nature of
participation in public service delivery. It situates itself under the theory of Public Service …

This paper is the culmination of several facilitated exercises and meetings between external
researchers and five citizen science (CS) project teams who analyzed existing data records …

Citizen scientists make valuable contributions to science but need to learn about the data
they are working with to be able to perform more advanced tasks. We present a set of design …