Citizen Science: Theory and Practice is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by Ubiquity Press on behalf of the Citizen Science Association. The journal focuses on advancing the global field of citizen science by providing a venue for citizen science researchers and practitioners to share best practices in conceiving, developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining projects that facilitate public participation in scientific endeavors in any discipline. Authors include scientists, educators, community organizers, information technologists, conservation biologists, evaluators, land-use planners, and more. Readers include anyone interested in understanding and improving practice of the growing citizen science field. As an open-access journal no fees are charged to view any part of the journal, which is supported by nominal author’s fees.
The journal accepts manuscripts in several categories:
For more details, see our descriptions in More About This Journal under the About tab.
Our Author Guidelines can be found here. We update our Author Guidelines periodically, so please make sure you are using the latest version of this document.
Please, pay particular attention to the word count of your submission as papers that are over the limit will not be considered.
Dear Authors, Readers, and Editors,
The Editorial team of Citizen Science: Theory and Practice is pleased to announce that we are moving into the academic publication ranking systems! Of course it is early days for us, and indexers take time to review a journal for inclusion, but we are thrilled with our progress thus far, and are excited to share it with all of you.
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice received a Scimago Journal Ranking of 0.61 and a CiteScore of 2.2 for 2021. The journal is also indexed by the Norwegian Register for scientific journals, series and publishers.
For many of you, rankings are important for furthering your careers. In some academic systems, academics are expected to publish only in ranked journals. Rankings tell a story, incomplete though it is, about the quality of our work, and this is frequently used in hiring and promotion cases.
You can help in this area by sharing papers from the journal on social media, and make sure that your colleagues and students are aware of the growing collection of citizen science papers that we have.
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This journal has been awarded the Directory of Open Access Journals seal of approval and is a member of COPE.