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Measuring epistemic success of a biodiversity citizen science program: A citation study.
- Source :
- PLoS ONE; 10/11/2021, Vol. 16 Issue 10, p1-13, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This paper offers a comparative evaluation of the scientific impact of a citizen science program in ecology, "Vigie-Nature", managed by the French National Museum of Natural History. Vigie-Nature consists of a national network of amateur observatories dedicated to a participative study of biodiversity in France that has been running for the last twenty years. We collected 123 articles published by Vigie-Nature in international peer-reviewed journals between 2007 and 2019, and computed the yearly amount of citations of these articles between 0–12 years post-publication. We then compared this body of citations with the number of yearly citations relative to the ensemble of the articles published in ecology and indexed in the "Web of Science" data-base. Using a longitudinal data analysis, we could observe that the yearly number of citations of the Vigie-Nature articles is significantly higher than that of the other publications in the same domain. Furthermore, this excess of citations tends to steadily grow over time: Vigie-Nature publications are about 1.5 times more cited 3 years after publication, and 3 times more cited 11 years post-publication. These results suggest that large-scale biodiversity citizen science projects are susceptible to reach a high epistemic impact, when managed in specific ways which need to be clarified through further investigations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CITIZEN science
PANEL analysis
NATURAL history museums
NATIONAL museums
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 152954438
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258350