Citizen science project characteristics: Connection to participants’ gains in knowledge and skills

• Maria Peter ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: research@mariapeter.org

  Affiliations Department of Landscape Ecology, Institute for Natural Resource Conservation, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany, IPN—Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, Kiel, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1734-1480

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• Tim Diekötter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Landscape Ecology, Institute for Natural Resource Conservation, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

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• Kerstin Kremer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology Education, IDN—Institute for Science Education, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2305-3650

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• Tim Höffler

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IPN—Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, Kiel, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3721-2109

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