Core reading 

Silvertown, Jonathan (2009). A new dawn for citizen science. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 24(9) pp. 467–471. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.03.017. You can find a copy of the paper here. 

Wikipedia article on citizen science. Briefly look at the issues that the Wikipedia community decided to cover with respect to this topic. 

Additional reading

Haklay, Mazumdar & Wardlaw (2018) Citizen Science for Observing and Understanding the Earth in: P.-P. Mathieu, C. Aubrecht (eds.), Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation, ISSI Scientific Report Series 15, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65633-5_4. You can find a copy here.

An article by Raquel Da Cunha (2015) in the ECSITE (the European network of science museums and centres) magazine - Are you ready for citizen science? 

Deep-dive reading

For an even deeper understanding of citizen science, you might want to explore the following books, both expressing the experience from a citizen scientist perspective: 

Diary of a Citizen Scientist, 2014, Sharman Apt Russell

Citizen Scientist, 2016, Mary Ellen Hannibal

The following edited book includes a collection of papers which are also helpful: 

Citizen Science: Public Participation in Environmental Research, 2015, edited by Janis Dickinson & Rick Bonney

The Rightful Place of Science: Citizen Science, 2016, edited by Darlene Cavalier & Eric Kennedy

Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy, 2018, edited by Susanne Hecker, Muki Haklay, Anne Bowser, Zen Makuch, Johannes Vogel and Aletta Bonn


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