Authorship protocols must change to credit citizen scientists

Georgia Ward-Fear; Gregory B. Pauly; Jann E. Vendetti; Richard Shine

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.007

Authorship protocols must change to credit citizen scientists

Georgia Ward-Fear^*, Gregory B. Pauly, Jann E. Vendetti, Richard Shine

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Abstract

The sociopolitical nature of research is changing and so must our protocols for authorship. Citizen scientists are often excluded from authorship because they cannot meet rigid journal criteria. To address this, we propose a new concept: allowing nonprofessional scientists to be credited as authors under a collective identity (‘group coauthorship’).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	187-190
Number of pages	4
Journal	Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Volume	35
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.007
Publication status	Published - Mar 2020

Keywords

citizen science
community science
group coauthorship
research ethics
traditional ecological knowledge

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