@article{a550ebda6a7e4575a92ce14672727890,
title = "A Science Products Inventory for Citizen-Science Planning and Evaluation",
abstract = "Citizen science involves a range of practices involving public participation in scientific knowledge production, but outcomes evaluation is complicated by the diversity of the goals and forms of citizen science. Publications and citations are not adequate metrics to describe citizen-science productivity. We address this gap by contributing a science products inventory (SPI) tool, iteratively developed through an expert panel and case studies, intended to support general-purpose planning and evaluation of citizen-science projects with respect to science productivity. The SPI includes a collection of items for tracking the production of science outputs and data practices, which are described and illustrated with examples. Several opportunities for further development of the initial inventory are highlighted, as well as potential for using the inventory as a tool to guide project management, funding, and research on citizen science.",
keywords = "altmetrics, citizen science, evaluation, science policy, science products inventory",
author = "Andrea Wiggins and Rick Bonney and Gretchen Lebuhn and Parrish, {Julia K.} and Weltzin, {Jake F.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported in part by US Geological Survey Cooperative Agreement no. G16AC00267 and National Science Foundation (NSF) grant no 0830944. JKP was partially supported by NSF grants no. 1114734 and no. 1322820. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the US government. The authors thank Anne Bowser, Eric Graham, Sandra Henderson, Megan Hines, Kelly Lotts, William Michener, Abe Miller-Rushing, Greg Newman, Karen Oberhauser, Alyssa Rosemartin, Eric Russell, Jennifer Shirk, Brian Sullivan, Arfon Smith, Robert D. Stevenson, Julian Turner, and Bruce Wilson for contributing to the inventory and case studies and Holly Faulkner and Fiona Jardine for editing assistance. Funding Information: for decision support and popular media such as magazines. Finally, the project is supported in part through competitive grant awards, cumulatively in the millions of US dollars. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.",
year = "2018",
month = jun,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/BIOSCIENCE/BIY028",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "68",
pages = "436--444",
journal = "BioScience",
issn = "0006-3568",
publisher = "American Institute of Biological Sciences",
number = "6",
}