<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Issues related to the evolving role of citizen science and open science are reviewed and discussed in this article. We focus on the changing approaches to science, research and development related to the turn to openness and transparency, which has made science more open and inclusive, even for non-researchers. Reproducible and collaborative research, which is driven by the open access principles, involves citizens in many research fields. The article shows how international support is pushing citizen science forward, and how citizens’ involvement is becoming more important. A basic scientometric analysis (based on the Web of Science Core Collection as the source of peer reviewed articles) provides a first insight into the diffusion of the citizen science concept in the field of Geography, mapping the growth of citizen science articles over time, the spectrum of geographical journals that publish them, and their citation rate compared to other scientific disciplines. The authors also discuss future challenges of citizen science and its potential, which for the time being seems to be not fully utilized in some fields, including geographical research.</p></abstract>

Issues related to the evolving role of citizen science and open science are reviewed and discussed in this article. We focus on the changing approaches to science, research and development related to the turn to openness and transparency, which has made science more open and inclusive, even for non-researchers. Reproducible and collaborative research, which is driven by the open access principles, involves citizens in many research fields. The article shows how international support is pushing citizen science forward, and how citizens’ involvement is becoming more important. A basic scientometric analysis (based on the Web of Science Core Collection as the source of peer reviewed articles) provides a first insight into the diffusion of the citizen science concept in the field of Geography, mapping the growth of citizen science articles over time, the spectrum of geographical journals that publish them, and their citation rate compared to other scientific disciplines. The authors also discuss future challenges of citizen science and its potential, which for the time being seems to be not fully utilized in some fields, including geographical research.

Citizen science as a new approach in Geography and beyond: Review and reflections

Institute of Geonics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Department of Environmental Geography

Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Department of Geo-information Processing

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Issues related to the evolving role of citizen science and open science are reviewed and discussed in this article. We focus on the changing approaches to...

Citizen science as a new approach in Geography and beyond: Review and reflections

Published Online: Jan 21, 2020

Page range: 254 - 264

Received: Sep 20, 2019

Accepted: Dec 12, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2019-0020

Keywords
citizen science, open science, open-access, neo-geography, scientometric analysis

© 2019 Jakub Trojan et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Citizen science as a new approach in Geography and beyond: Review and reflections

Published Online: Jan 21, 2020

Page range: 254 - 264

Received: Sep 20, 2019

Accepted: Dec 12, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2019-0020

Keywordscitizen science, open science, open-access, neo-geography, scientometric analysis

© 2019 Jakub Trojan et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
citizen science, open science, open-access, neo-geography, scientometric analysis