Challenges of Citizen Science: Commons, Incentives, Organizations, and Regulations

Understanding technological, cultural, and environmental motivators explaining the adoption of citizen science apps for coastal environment monitoring

“…Data quality and recognition by the scientific community are also challenges facing CS (Turrini et al, 2018). Data quality may be compromised by poor project design, varying data quality standards, non-experts' lack of commitment and skills, deliberate provision of fabricated data, and others (Balázs et al, 2021;Weber et al, 2019). Still, project elements and digital platforms can be designed to avoid, detect, and correct data issues (Kosmala et al, 2016;San Llorente Capdevila et al, 2020;Kasten et al, 2021).…”

Citizens AND HYdrology (CANDHY): conceptualizing a transdisciplinary framework for citizen science addressing hydrological challenges

“…While the technology that facilitates citizen science is mature with ready-to-use equipment and software broadly used across diverse disciplines (Blöschl et al, 2019, Mazzoleni et al, 2017, Tauro et al, 2018, Wan et al, 2014, standardization procedures are not. New policies are also needed that recognize citizen science as a cross-cutting priority, to support and regulate opportunistic sensing and unstructured information gathering, sharing and use (Palsson et al, 2013, Weber et al, 2019, Wehn et al, 2015.…”

Science as a Commons: Improving the Governance of Knowledge Through Citizen Science

“…to the knowledge commons (Hess and Ostrom 2007) since the beginning of the twenty-first century, specifically, to scientific knowledge (Vermeir 2013;Irzik 2013). This includes collaborative methodologies, for example, data production in citizen science projects (Weber et al 2019) and data analysis in online citizen science projects (Madison 2014).…”