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.
Registration is open for CSA's virtual conference, C*Sci2022, May 23-26, with a call for late-breaking posters open through April 10th.
Similar to this journal, CSA's annual events highlight insights from people from across disciplines, roles, and career stages to address cross-cutting questions like:
What practices and structures support equity, inclusion, and diversity in c*science projects?
How can we break down silos and historical barriers for cross-disciplinary collaborations?
Where do tech innovations meet socially responsible and responsive solutions?
The conference team has planned a week of inspiring conversations, action-oriented engagement sessions, and networking opportunities. Join us to find emerging research, hear new perspectives, meet new colleagues, and build skills that you can apply to your own practice, career, research, or programs.
Details are available at https://citizenscience.org/c-sci-2022/
*C-Science encompasses the many names for work done in this field. Whether contributory, collaborative, or co-created, whether called community science, crowdsourcing, or citizen science (or efforts that don’t start with "c"), CSA connects people to share effective practices for public research partnerships.
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A new Citizen Science: Theory and Practice special collection aims to bring together papers that offer insights into the contributions of citizen science to the monitoring, implementation, and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as other international agreements and frameworks. Issue editors are particularly interested in contributions critically analyzing the monitoring and implementation processes of such frameworks through the lens of citizen science data and impact, among other relevant topics.
Abstracts accepted through April 30th. Please see the CSA website for full details, including issue overview, article types, deadlines and logistics.
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This journal has been awarded the Directory of Open Access Journals seal of approval and is a member of COPE.