Recruiting and Retaining Participants in Citizen Science: What Can Be Learned from the Volunteering Literature?
Recruiting and Retaining Participants in Citizen Science: What Can Be Learned from the Volunteering Literature?
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招募和留住公民科学参与者：可以从志愿服务文献中学到什么？
DOI：
10.5334/cstp.8
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
R. Pateman
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文献类型：
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作者：
S. West;R. Pateman
随着科学家、政策制定者和非政府组织看到以这种方式进行研究的价值，新的公民科学项目不断涌现。了解哪些因素影响人们参与公民科学项目，以及参与者为什么继续参与是该领域的重要问题。在这里，我们汇集了来自志愿服务文献的关键理论与环境志愿服务和公民科学文献的例子，以描述影响人们开始并继续参与公民科学项目的因素。良好的项目组织是关键，项目组织者需要考虑潜在参与者的动机;他们的个人属性，环境和人口统计数据;以及他们如何意识到机会。我们讨论了这些因素，参考学术和灰色（非学术）文献，并在此基础上，为那些设计和运行公民科学项目的一般性建议。
New citizen science projects are emerging all the time as scientists, policy-makers, and non-governmental organisations see the value of conducting research in this way. Understanding what factors infuence people to take part in citizen science projects and why participants continue their involvement are important questions for the field. Here, we bring together key theories from the volunteering literature with examples from the environmental volunteering and citizen science literature to describe the factors that influence people to start and continue participating in citizen science projects. Good project organi sation is key, and project organisers need to consider potential participants’ motivations; their personal attributes, circumstances and demographics; and how they will become aware of the opportunity. We discuss each of these factors with reference to both the academic and the grey (non-academic) literature, and based on this make general recommendations for those designing and running citizen science projects.