Measuring epistemic success of a biodiversity citizen science program: A citation study.
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 stu...
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| author | Baptiste Bedessem Romain Julliard Eleonora Montuschi |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-619ecb49ac344ec4bb103386ae3deb8f2022-12-21T22:53:43ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032021-01-011610e025835010.1371/journal.pone.0258350Measuring epistemic success of a biodiversity citizen science program: A citation study.Baptiste BedessemRomain JulliardEleonora MontuschiThis 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.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258350 |
| spellingShingle | Baptiste Bedessem Romain Julliard Eleonora Montuschi Measuring epistemic success of a biodiversity citizen science program: A citation study. PLoS ONE |
| title | Measuring epistemic success of a biodiversity citizen science program: A citation study. |
| title_full | Measuring epistemic success of a biodiversity citizen science program: A citation study. |
| title_fullStr | Measuring epistemic success of a biodiversity citizen science program: A citation study. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring epistemic success of a biodiversity citizen science program: A citation study. |
| title_short | Measuring epistemic success of a biodiversity citizen science program: A citation study. |
| title_sort | measuring epistemic success of a biodiversity citizen science program a citation study |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258350 |
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