About the Authors

Bruno J. Strasser

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

bruno.strasser@unige.ch

Affiliation University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Elise Tancoigne

Contributed equally to this work with: Elise Tancoigne, Jérôme Baudry, Steven Piguet

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Geography and Sustainability, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Jérôme Baudry

Contributed equally to this work with: Elise Tancoigne, Jérôme Baudry, Steven Piguet

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Steven Piguet

Contributed equally to this work with: Elise Tancoigne, Jérôme Baudry, Steven Piguet

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Helen Spiers

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

José Luis-Fernandez Marquez

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Citizen Cyberlab, Information Science Institute, Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Jérôme Kasparian

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Group of Applied Physics and Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

François Grey

Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Citizen Cyberlab, Information Science Institute, Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

David Anderson

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America

Chris Lintott

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: CL was co-founder of Galaxy Zoo in 2007 and, as a Professor at the University of Oxford, he works with the non-profit Zooniverse citizen science project (grant). HS is a researcher based at The Francis Crick Institute and collaborates with the non-profit Zooniverse citizen science project (grant). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.