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. 2016 Dec 8;33(3):505–514. doi: 10.1093/heapro/daw086

Table 1:

Citizen Science descriptive characteristics

AIMS

  1. Investigation: aimed at answering scientific questions

  2. Education: aimed at educational goals

  3. Collective goods: public health, management of infectious diseases, protect and manage natural resources.

  4. Action: citizens and scientists collaborate to address local concerns
APPROACHES

  1. Extreme citizen science. Citizens in charge from problem definition, data collection and analysis, to interpretation and knowledge development

  2. Participatory science: Participation of citizens in problem definition and data collection

  3. Distributed intelligence
    1. Citizens as basic interpreters
    2. Volunteered thinking
  4. Crowd sourcing
    1. Citizens as sensors
    2. Volunteered computing
SIZE

  1. Local

  2. Mass