Quantifying online citizen science: Dynamics and demographics of public participation in science

• Bruno J. Strasser ,

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

  * E-mail: bruno.strasser@unige.ch

  Affiliation University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2773-6670

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8981-0752

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• 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

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• 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

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• Jérôme Kasparian,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2398-3882

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• 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

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• David Anderson,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

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

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• Chris Lintott

  Roles Data curation, Resources

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

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