Exploring the participation of young citizen scientists in scientific research: The case of iNaturalist

• Maria Aristeidou ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: maria.aristeidou@open.ac.uk

  Affiliation Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5877-7267

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• Christothea Herodotou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

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• Heidi L. Ballard,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Community and Citizen Science, UC Davis School of Education, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Alison N. Young ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alison N. Young, Annie E. Miller, Lila Higgins, Rebecca F. Johnson

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8919-0661

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• Annie E. Miller ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alison N. Young, Annie E. Miller, Lila Higgins, Rebecca F. Johnson

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6935-485X

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• Lila Higgins ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alison N. Young, Annie E. Miller, Lila Higgins, Rebecca F. Johnson

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Rebecca F. Johnson

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alison N. Young, Annie E. Miller, Lila Higgins, Rebecca F. Johnson

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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