Citizen science (CS) refers to public participation in scientific research, encouraging amateur scientists to report, collect and categorize biological data. The term amateur scientist refers to anyone without a professional scientific career, however, it does not reflect the level of expertise since many amateurs, based on years of experience, in fact are experts in their fields. With the attempt to make science more open to the public, the United Kingdom and the United States of America were amongst the first to utilize the term citizen science back in the 1990s. According to the organization Scistarter, the number of registered CS projects has experienced a vast increase, from only a couple to several hundred projects in only 10 years of time. Today, thousands of CS projects yield a close collaboration between millions of people of both the public and the scientific community worldwide, covering a range of topics spanning from microbiota to our vast galaxies.
Citizen science (CS) refers to public participation in scientific research, encouraging amateur scientists to report, collect and categorize biological data. The term amateur scientist refers to anyone without a professional scientific career, however, it does not reflect the level of expertise since many amateurs, based on years of experience, in fact are experts in their fields. With the attempt to make science more open to the public, the United Kingdom and the United States of America were amongst the first to utilize the term citizen science back in the 1990s. According to the organization Scistarter, the number of registered CS projects has experienced a vast increase, from only a couple to several hundred projects in only 10 years of time. Today, thousands of CS projects yield a close collaboration between millions of people of both the public and the scientific community worldwide, covering a range of topics spanning from microbiota to our vast galaxies.
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